Improving the Management of Branch Integration of Comecon Member Nations

• Published in: Problems of economics 1974-01, Vol.16 (9), p.69-90
• Main Authors: Kormnov, Iu, Cheburakov, M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Council For Mutual Economic Assistance
• ISSN: 0032-9436
• DOI: 10.2753/PET1061-1991160969

In the two years that have elapsed since the Twenty-Fifth Session of COMECON, which adopted the Integrated Program for the Further Intensification and Improvement of Collaboration and the Development of the Socialist Economic Integration of COMECON Member Nations, the nations participating in the integration have performed ho little amount of important work. Organs of the Council of Mutual Economic Aid have prepared a number of materials on methods and norms, have found a solution to the many concrete problems of collaboration, and have made substantial recommendations. Work has commenced on making preparations for the coordination of national economic plans for 1976-1980, the first joint forecasts have been compiled, agreements and contracts have been concluded on specialization and cooperation of production, on joint planning, etc. In the realm of science and technology, agreements on collaboration were signed on 18 scientific and technical problems, and 35 coordinating centers were formed. Participating in the work of the coordinating centers are over 500 research and development organizations of COMECON member nations, 6 scientific coordinating councils, and 2 international scientific-production associations: "Interatominstrument" and "Interetalonpribor." All this indicates the great attention that the communist and workers' parties of fraternal countries pay to the development of socialist economic integration, which was quite vigorously demonstrated at the Twenty-Seventh Session of COMECON in June 1973. The communique of this session notes that "the implementation of the Integrated Program has become the main content of economic and scientific-technical collaboration" between COMECON member nations.