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Council for Mutual Economic Assistance

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noun

  1. COMECON.


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Since the 1950s, the Moscow-based Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, known as Comecon, has brokered the bulk of East bloc trade.

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They had come to Moscow for the first top-level meeting in 15 years of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, the Sovietled trading community.

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The agency driving to build this unheralded rival to Western Europe's powerful six-nation Common Market is the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, or COMECON.

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The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, or Comecon, was set up to coordinate and integrate East bloc economies; the system has been as ungainly as its foundation stone, Soviet-style central planning.

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