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India and the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, popularly known as CERN, have signed a Statement of Intent under which the existing scientific and technical cooperation between India and Nuclear Centre would be further extended.

The Statement of Intent was signed by Chairman of Department of Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar and Director General of CERN Robert Aymar.

The agreement, which will facilitate further research in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), aims to encourage extending the existing scientific and technical cooperation between India and CERN in particular in the field of novel accelerator and information technologies as well as through the training and education of scientists and technical experts.

The draft protocol shall extend the existing collaboration between India and CERN to include in particular collaboration in novel technologies required for accelerator projects of next generation.

The collaboration, which shall be for peaceful purposes only, should require the involvement of physicists, engineers and specialized technicians participating in research projects.

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