Convention of World Congress of Tatars supports keeping post of president in republic
KAZAN. Aug 3 (Interfax) - Delegates of the sixth convention of the World Congress of Tatars (WCT) on Thursday adopted a resolution stressing the importance of keeping the post of president in Tatarstan and pointing out to the positive effect of the treaty on the separation of powers between the republic and the federation.
"We delegates of the sixth convention of WCT support the appeal of the State Council of Tatarstan on keeping the post of the president of the Republic of Tatarstan as a positive form of arranging supreme government power in the republic and expressing the national interests of the entire Tatar people," the resolution says.
Delegates of the convention also "expressed the conviction that at an important historical stage the treaty on the separation of terms of reference and powers between government bodies of the Russian Federation and government bodies of the Republic of Tatarstan played a positive role in the ethnic and cultural, social and economic, public and political development of Tatarstan and the Russian Federation as a whole."
Earlier reports said that on July 11 deputies of the State Council of Tatarstan addressed President Vladimir Putin with the request of keeping the post of president in the region and settling the situation related to the expiry in 2017 of the treaty on the separation of powers between the federal and regional authorities.
The treaty on the separation of powers between the Russian Federation and Tatarstan was approved on July 24, 2007 by a federal legislation for a term of 10 years.
Tatarstan is the only constituent member of the Russian Federation to have such a treaty and where the head of the region is called president.
