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(Council for Mutual Economic Cooperation, or
CMEA) economic organization established 1949
and prompted by the Marshall Plan, linking
the USSR with Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, Poland, Romania, East Germany (from
1950), Mongolia (from 1962), Cuba (from
1972), and Vietnam (from 1978), with
Yugoslavia as an associated member. Albania
also belonged 1949-61. The secretariat is
based in Moscow and regular annual meetings
are held in the member countries. Trade
between member countries is hampered by the
lack of a convertible currency, the
transferable rupee being merely an accounting
device. It was agreed in 1987 that official
relations should be established with the
European Community, and a
free-market approach to trading was adopted
1990.