OREANDA-NEWS. October 08, 2013. Agreement with CERN is a benchmark of what should be the European integration of Ukraine: as the country with sufficient scientific, technological and uniquely powerful industrial potential, the Prime Minister Mykola Azarov stressed in the greeting of Ukrainian scientists in on the occasion of Ukraine's Association membership in the European Organization for Nuclear research (CERN).

"Recognition of the role of Ukrainian science was due to Your contribution to European science, including cooperation within the framework of the Large Hadron Collider," the Prime Minister said.

According to him, "the signed agreement will allow Ukraine to receive orders from CERN to produce high-tech equipment, our scientific community will be able to promote their own and contribute to the development of new technologies, will participate in joint training and research programs, as well as stop the outflow of talented youth abroad".

CERN (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire) - International Research Centre of the European Community, the world's largest laboratory for High Energy Physics, established on September 29, 1954.

Cooperation between Ukraine and CERN has been carried out since 1993 under the provisions of the Agreement between the Parties on the further development of scientific and technical cooperation in the field of high energy physics dated on April 2, 1993.

In March of this year, by the order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine number 151, a Joint Declaration of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and CERN on scientific and technical cooperation was signed. The official request was a letter of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov to the procedure of eligibility associate member of CERN dated on December 21, 2011.

On October 3, 2013 at the headquarters of CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) Rolf Hoyer, CERN Director General and Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Kostyantyn Gryshchenko signed the Agreement between Ukraine and the European Organization for Nuclear Research on the providing to our state of associate member status at CERN.

As of today 47 Ukrainian scientists work at CERN.