Farid Mukhametshin: Holding 6th convention of Tatar language teachers in Year of Culture is especially responsible

The 6th convention of Tatar language and literature teachers and employees of educational organisations teaching in Tatar opened in Kazan on Monday. Attendees at the plenary meeting were Tatarstan State Council Chairman Farid Mukhametshin, Tatarstan Prime Minister Deputy Engel Fattakhov and World Congress of Tatars Chairman Rinat Zakirov.
The participants will for three days discuss innovative Tatar language and literature teaching approaches as well as prospects for developing schools teaching Tatar and in Tatar in Russian territories.
Welcoming the convention, Farid Mukhametshin said the previous meeting like that had taken place four years before.
Representatives from 34 Russian regions and visitors from abroad, including from Belarus, Lithuania, Kazkhstan and Poland, came to Kazan. State Council Chairman said special words of gratitude to Crimean Tatars who took part in the assembly for the first time.
“This convention needs to consider innovative teaching approaches and language studies principles, as well as cooperation between ethnic-cultural autonomous groups and authorities,” he stressed.
“The holding of this convention in the Year of Culture gives this event special responsibility,” the official is convinced. “It is through language that a nation’s spiritual wealth is passed from generation to generation.”
The main elements of Tatarstan’s culture were agreement in interethnic and interpersonal relations, tolerance and respect for the history, language and traditions of other peoples, parliament speaker went on to claim. In his words, Tatarstan is home to over 170 ethnic groups that have for centuries been good neighbours to each other and respected each other.
“At the same time, the main goal of the ethnic-cultural policy remains expanding the area of applying the Tatar language as a language of communication, science and teaching,” Farid Mukhametshin concluded.