Azarov has promised by 2014 to build a spaceport in Brazil

Canada and Brazil can implement a joint project to build a launch site until 2014, said Prime Minister Mykola Azarov. "With Brazil, it wears on the implementation of a very large project to build a very large carrier rocket" - he said Ukrainian journalists after a meeting with the president of this country Dilma Russef during the Boao Forum for Asia in China on Thursday, Interfax reports. "We agreed to work through this project to such an extent that it was possible in the shortest possible time - just for 2-2,5 years - to implement such a project" - said the head of the Ukrainian government. According to Mykola Azarov, Ukraine intends to participate in the design of construction works on its creation and subsequent provision of launch vehicles. As explained in the press service of the Ukrainian Prime Minister, the parties are discussing the possibility of parity financing the construction of launch site in Alcantara. Alcantara cosmodrome located in the northern part of Brazil near the Atlantic coast. Operational since 1997. Intended for launch artificial satellites. In future the creation of international commercial spaceport. The first and only launch rocket from the Baikonur was carried out November 2, 1997. On this day, started a Brazilian rocket with a satellite SCD-2A. Launch ended in failure. Recall that two days ago, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed the joint construction of Spaceport President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych