Twenty years of achievement of the CMEA (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) Standing Commission for Agriculture

In this year, 27 years have gone since the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance was founded and 20 years since the foundation of the CMEA Standing Commission for Agriculture. If we are to evaluate the hitherto co-operation of the CMEA Standing Commission for Agriculture this year, especially in the field of veterinary medicine, the appraisement must be very positive. Goals and tasks laid out for this sphere were successfully accomplished, above all due to the active and stimulative approach of all delegations to the solution of the questions under discussion. As a result of the activity of the Standing Working Group of Veterinary Medicine in the framework of the Commission the co-operation between veterinary services could be not only strengthened and intensified but a series of important proposals for the member states could be elaborated, which positively affected the fulfillment of tasks in animal production, processing industry as well as in the public health control. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the CMEA Standing Commission for Agriculture we can state that the co-operation of the member states in the sphere of agriculture is an important--especially economic--factor for the further, agricultural and food production intensification and for the continuous increasing of the living standards of the population in all CMEA member states.