CERN, the European Council for Nuclear Research, will end cooperation with Russian scientists later this year. Moscow does not like this decision at all. Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova she tagged him for “politically motivated and absolutely unacceptable”.
CERN in December stated, that because of the war in Ukraine, they will suspend cooperation with Russia from November 2024 and with Belarus from June. The full text of the Council resolution is available HERE.
“We consider such actions to be politicized and absolutely unacceptable. The West is increasing the pressure on our country in the field of basic science,” said Maria Zakharova.
She added that CERN’s decision is discriminatory once morest Russian scientists.
CERN was founded in 1953, cooperation was according to the server World Nuclear News with the Soviet Union was formalized in 1967. A cooperation agreement was signed with the Russian Federation in 1993, leading to the 2019 International Cooperation Agreement, which is in force until November 30, 2024 and provides a framework for cooperation between the parties.
Following a March 2022 UN General Assembly resolution entitled Aggression once morest Ukraine, it suspended until further notice the observer status of the Russian Federation and effectively suspended all exchanges of funds, materials and personnel in both directions with the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, and suspended the participation of CERN scientists in all scientific committees of institutions located in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. Belarus and vice versa.
“The decision to terminate the cooperation agreement was taken in December 2023, when the CERN Council adopted a resolution to terminate the International Cooperation Agreement between CERN and the Russian Federation, together with all related protocols and amendments, with effect from 30 November 2024; To terminate … all other agreements and memoranda of understanding enabling the participation of the Russian Federation and its national institutes in the CERN scientific program with effect from 30 November 2024; CONFIRMS that these measures concern relations between CERN and Russian and Belarusian institutions and do not affect relations with scientists of Russian nationality affiliated with other institutions. The cooperation agreement with Belarus will expire on June 27, before the agreement with Russia ends,” wrote World Nuclear News.
Russian scientists at CERN currently continue to work – Earlier this week, Pavel Logachev, director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told the TASS news agency that six of their researchers will continue their work at CERN until the end of the agreement.
A spokesman for the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences told TASS that “the decision will negatively affect scientific research carried out both at CERN and at Russian institutions.”
“The process of handing things over to our colleagues from the various CERN member states is currently underway, which should be completed by November 2024,” he added.
CERN, which is based in Geneva, says its mission is to help “uncover what the universe is made of and how it works. We do this by providing researchers with a unique array of particle accelerator facilities to push the boundaries of human knowledge.” His achievements include the Large Hadron Collider, which launched in 2009, the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012, and was also the birthplace of the World Wide Web. CERN has 23 Member States, 10 Associate Member States and includes 17,000 people from around the world, with more than 110 nationalities represented.
