OREANDA-NEWS. January 23, 2012. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov believes optimal cooperation between Ukraine and the Customs Union in the format 3 +1. This was stated by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov at a press conference: "The results of the Government’s activity in 2011 year."

"We have offered them, and the President has said about it clearly, a simple understandable formula for cooperation in the format 3 +1. That is a big package of contractual relations, we see and choose what is acceptable to us and we accept them," said Mykola Azarov.

At this he stressed that currently extremely important it is the introduction of common technical regulations, including for the foodstuffs.