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Comecon; Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
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Charter of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance: June 14, 1914.

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance


The Contracting Parties, stating their desire for a system of collective economic stability founded on the economic principles of socialism have agreed to the creation of a Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon) based on a communiqué agreed upon by the United League of Spartacist Soviets and the United Socialist States of Tarshish. The stated purpose of the organization is to enable member states to exchange economic experiences, extend technical aid to one another, and to render mutual assistance with respect to raw materials, foodstuffs, machines, equipment, etc.

Article 1

Membership to the Council is extended to all those states who refuse to subordinate themselves to the dictates of the Capitalist system, those with intention to resist illegal trade boycotts ilegally imposed by Lumecia and other imperialist states and those who wish to organize more broadly based economic cooperation with the ULSS and USST. Geography is no bar to Comecon membership, nor are wide variations in economic size and levels of economic development. All Comecon members are united by a commonality of fundamental class interests and ideology, common approaches to economic ownership and also management .

Article 2

There are four kinds of relationships a country may have with Comecon: full membership, associate membership, nonsocialist "cooperant" status, and "observer country" status. Mutual agreement determines the precise nature of the relationship. Governments of countries not empowered to conclude agreements in the name of private companies, will not directly take part in Comecon operations. They will be represented in Comecon by commissions made up of members of the government and the business community. The commissions are empowered to sign various "framework" agreements with Comecon's Joint Commission on Cooperation.

Article 3

Comecon is an interstate organization through which members attempt to coordinate economic activities of mutual interest and to develop multilateral economic, scientific, and technical cooperation. The sovereign equality of all members is fundamental to the organization and procedures of Comecon. The Comprehensive Program further emphasizes that the processes of integration of members' economies are completely voluntary and do not involve the creation of supranational bodies. Hence under the provisions of the Charter, each country has the right to equal representation and one vote in all organs of Comecon, regardless of the country's economic size or the size of its contribution to Comecon's budget.

Article 4

The provisions of the Charter reinforce the principle of sovereign equality. Comecon's recommendations and decisions can be adopted only upon agreement among the interested members, and each has the right to declare its interest in any matter under consideration. Furthermore recommendations and decisions shall not apply to countries that have declared that they have no interest in a particular matter.

Article 5

Comecon recognizes the principle of unanimity, disinterested parties do not have a veto but rather the right to abstain from participation. A declaration of disinterest cannot block a project unless the disinterested party's participation is vital. Otherwise interested parties may proceed without the abstaining member, affirming that a country that has declared a lack of interest may subsequently adhere to the recommendations and decisions adopted by the remaining members of the Council.

Article 6

The descriptive term Comecon applies to all multilateral activities involving members of the organization and is not restricted to the direct functions of Comecon and its organs. This usage may be extended as well to bilateral relations among members, because in the system of socialist international economic relations, multilateral accords--typically of a general nature--tend to be implemented through a set of more detailed, bilateral agreements.

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Alekseyev Ivanovich Zinoviev, Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars.
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