BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum

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Ildar Shakirov, Deputy Head of the Kazan Executive Committee Overseeing Transport, Economic Development, and Trade, us seen here ahead of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Ilya Kuzmin, Deputy Head of the Department of Foreign Economic and External Relations of Moscow, takes part, via videoconference, in the module, Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals. Effective Planning and Management Mechanisms for a City's Future. Smart Cities, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Participants in the module, Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals. Effective Planning and Management Mechanisms for a City's Future. Smart Cities, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Timur Kadyrov, Deputy Chief Architect of Kazan, takes part in the module, Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals. Effective Planning and Management Mechanisms for a City's Future. Smart Cities, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Alexander Borisov, Director of the IT Park High Technologies Technopark, takes part in the module, Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals. Effective Planning and Management Mechanisms for a City's Future. Smart Cities, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Ildar Shakirov, Deputy Head of the Kazan Executive Committee Overseeing Transport, Economic Development and Trade, takes part in the module, Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals. Effective Planning and Management Mechanisms for a City's Future. Smart Cities, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Screens with a presentation and images of participants in the module, Ensuring Sustainable Urban Development Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Rima Mukhamedshina, Deputy of the Kazan City Duma and CEO of the Kazan Department of Food and Social Nutrition, and Alexei Shulayev, Vice-Rector for Regional Health Development at Kazan State Medical University of the Ministry of Health, take part in the module, Ensuring Sustainable Urban Development Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Screen with a presentation and images of participants in the module, Ensuring Sustainable Urban Development Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Rima Mukhamedshina, Deputy of the Kazan City Duma and CEO of the Kazan Department of Food and Social Nutrition, takes part in the module, Ensuring Sustainable Urban Development Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Participants in the module, Ensuring Sustainable Urban Development Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Participants in the module, Ensuring Sustainable Urban Development Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum. From left: Alexei Shulayev, Vice-Rector for Regional Health Development at Kazan State Medical University of the Ministry of Health, Rima Mukhamedshina, Deputy of the Kazan City Duma and CEO of the Kazan Department of Food and Social Nutrition, Elina Tabakchi, International Affairs Consultant of the Head of Kazan Municipality, and Linar Khusnullin, CEO of KazanExpress.

Linar Khusnullin, CEO of Kazan Express, takes part in the module, Ensuring Sustainable Urban Development Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Elina Tabakchi, International Affairs Consultant of the Head of Kazan Municipality, and Linar Khusnullin, CEO of KazanExpress, take part in the module, Ensuring Sustainable Urban Development Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Monika Kosinska, Programme Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO), takes part, via videoconference, in the module, Ensuring Sustainable Urban Development Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Participants in the module, Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals. Effective Planning and Management Mechanisms for a City's Future. Smart Cities, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Rodolpho Zannin Feijo, Head of International Affairs in Curitiba (Brazil), takes part, via videoconference, Participants in the module, Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals. Effective Planning and Management Mechanisms for a City's Future. Smart Cities, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Participants in the module, Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals. Effective Planning and Management Mechanisms for a City's Future. Smart Cities, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum. Center, down: Filipe Rocha, Technical Secretary of the Latin American Smart Cities network (Brazil).

Participants in the module, Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals. Effective Planning and Management Mechanisms for a City's Future. Smart Cities, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Rifat Khannanov, Head of the Information Technologies and Communications Department of the Kazan Executive Committee, takes part in the module, Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals. Effective Planning and Management Mechanisms for a City's Future. Smart Cities, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Participants in the module, Ensuring Sustainable Urban Development Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Participants in the module, Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals. Effective Planning and Management Mechanisms for a City's Future. Smart Cities, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Participants in the module, Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals. Effective Planning and Management Mechanisms for a City's Future. Smart Cities, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Wang Wei, Deputy Director of Data Management in the City of Hefei (China), takes part, via videoconference, in the module, Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals. Effective Planning and Management Mechanisms for a City's Future. Smart Cities, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Participants in the module, Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals. Effective Planning and Management Mechanisms for a City's Future. Smart Cities, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Alexander Borisov, Director of the IT Park High Technologies Technopark, takes part in the module, Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals. Effective Planning and Management Mechanisms for a City's Future. Smart Cities, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Participants in the module, Ensuring Sustainable Urban Development Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Participants in the module, Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals. Effective Planning and Management Mechanisms for a City's Future. Smart Cities, at the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum. From left: Timur Kadyrov, Deputy Chief Architect of Kazan, Ildar Shakirov, Deputy Head of the Kazan Executive Committee Overseeing Transport, Economic Development and Trade, Rifat Khannanov, Head of the Information Technologies and Communications Department of the Kazan Executive Committee, and Alexander Borisov, Director of the IT Park High Technologies Technopark.

Participants in the module "Development of inter-municipal cooperation between BRICS members – contribution to the SDG agenda" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

A participant in the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum holds a ring-bound notebook with a BRICS logo.

Sergei Mironov, Head of the Administration of Moskovsky and Kirovsky districts of the city of Kazan, takes part in the module "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Rasikh Sagitov, Secretary General, Eurasian Branch of the United Cities and Local Governments international organisation, takes part in the module "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Participants in the module "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum, from left: Rasikh Sagitov, Secretary General, Eurasian Branch of the United Cities and Local Governments international organisation; Sergei Mironov, Head of the Administration of Moskovsky and Kirovsky districts of the city of Kazan, and Yevgenia Muzgireva, Head, Office Management, Council of the Republic of Tatartstan Municipalities association.

A screen featuring participants in the module "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum. Top right: Vyacheslav Manuylov, Head of the International Relations and Protocol Office of the Moscow Foreign Economic Relations Department (Russia).

Antonio Fernando Cruz de Mello, Head of the International Relations Department at Rio de Janeiro City Hall (Brazil), at right on the screen, takes part in the module "Development of inter-municipal cooperation between BRICS members – contribution to the SDG agenda" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

A screen featuring a presentation and participants in the module "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Francisco Resnikoff, Under Secretary General of International Relations of Buenos Aires (Argentina), takes part in the module "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Sergei Mironov, Head of the Administration of Moskovsky and Kirovsky districts of the city of Kazan, takes part in the module "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Ruslan Galiakhmetov, Head, Department of International and Inter-municipal Relationss, Kazan city legislature, takes part in the module "Development of inter-municipal cooperation between BRICS members – contribution to the SDG agenda" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Darya Sannikova, left, Director, Kazan Tourism Development Committee, and Diana Fazlitdinova, Chair, Youth Diplomacy Academy of the Republic of Tatarstan, take part in the module "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Reilis Oliveira, International Consultant for the National Confederation of Municipalities (CNM) (Brazil), takes part in the "Development of inter-municipal cooperation between BRICS members – contribution to the SDG agenda" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Lorenna Cavalcante, International Consultant for the National Confederation of Municipalities (CNM) (Brazil), takes part in the "Development of inter-municipal cooperation between BRICS members – contribution to the SDG agenda" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Participants in the module "Development of inter-municipal cooperation between BRICS members – contribution to the SDG agenda" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum..

Eliel Robson Lemes Ribeiro, President of the Municipal Executive Committee for SDGs of the City of Birigui (Brazil), takes part in the module "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

Emilia Size, Secretary General, United Cities and Local Governments international organisation, take part in the module "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.

A screen featuring participants in the module "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum. Top right: Zhong Leiying, Deputy Director, Nanchang Municipal Development and Reform Commission (China).

Participants in the module "Development of inter-municipal cooperation between BRICS members – contribution to the SDG agenda" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum, from left: Darya Sannikova, Director, Kazan Tourism Development Committee; Ruslan Galiakhmetov, Head, Department of International and Inter-municipal Relations, Kazan city legislature; Dilbar Sadykova, CEO, Tourism Development Centre of the Republic of Tatarstan, and Diana Fazlitdinova, Chair, Youth Diplomacy Academy of the Republic of Tatarstan.

A participant in the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum holds a ring-bound notebook with a BRICS logo.

Xolile George, right screen, CEO, South African Local Government Association (South Africa), takes part in the module "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" as part of the BRICS Friendship Cities and Local Government Cooperation Forum.