OREANDA-NEWS. August 11, 2011. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov stands for concrete economic filling of the formula of cooperation in the format "3+1" of Ukraine with the Customs Union. He said this during the IX session of the Russian-Ukrainian forum "The second wave of global financial crisis and prospects of Ukrainian- Russian relations".

"We support that at the negotiation table with the Russian side, first of all, and also with the Belarusian and Kazakh colleagues, studying their experience in the establishment of the Customs Union considering the specific legal documents of this agreement, step by step, to take these or other documents. That is, to fill the formula put forward by our President "3+1" concrete economic content", - the Premier Minister said.

Moreover, Mykola Azarov supported the thesis of Russian scientists that sounds like: "What is bad for Ukraine and bad for Russia, and vice versa".