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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.
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