At a seminar on Russian-Czech cooperation in space research during the two-day European Inter-Parliamentary Space Conference (EISC) meeting, Nazarov voiced regret over the weakening of such cooperation in the past two decades.
However, this cooperation experiences renaissance at present and today's seminar witnessed it, he said.
According to Nazarov, Russia was cooperating with the ESA and the United States in space research and that the International Space Station (ISS) to which Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts recently flew aboard a Russian spacecraft could serve as an example of such cooperation.
Around 25 scientists attended the seminar organized in Prague by the Czech Space Office and the Russian Center of Science and Culture in cooperation with the Czech Technical University (CVUT) Faculty of Nuclear Science and Physical Engineering.
Czech deputy Pavel Hojda, chairman of the Prague conference, stressed at the close of the two-day conference that the significance of this year's participation of Russian parliament's representatives and expressed regret over the absence of representatives of Japan, China, India, Canada and the United States.
He said he hoped that space cooperation would also develop with these countries. He also voiced the hope that Slovakia, Bulgaria and Lithuania would soon become members of the conference.
At the close of the EISC meeting that ended in Prague, the delegates stressed the interest of all member states in strengthening the role of the EU in the development of space technologies and in the research and use of space.
Participants also stressed the need for international cooperation in space research.
