Comprehensive Program

(full name: Comprehensive Program for the Further Extension and Promotion of Cooperation and Development of Socialist Economic Integration Among the Members of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance), a program adopted by the 25th session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON), held in July 1971 in Bucharest, in accord with the decisions of the 23rd (special) session of the council (April 1969, Moscow). At the 25th session the leaders of the Communist and workers’ parties and heads of government of the COMECON members defined the basic tasks and directions of further cooperation and development of socialist economic integration in accord with present-day conditions of building socialism and communism. The Comprehensive Program is calculated for fulfillment within 15 to 20 years, that is, before 1985–90.