effective-21 December 1991
aim-to coordinate intercommonwealth relations and to provide a mechanism for the orderly dissolution of the USSR
members-(10) Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Communaute Economique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (CEAO) see West African Economic Community (CEAO)
Communaute Economique des
Etats de l'Afrique Centrale
(CEEAC)
see Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC)
Communaute Economique des Pays des Grands Lacs
(CEPGL)
see Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL)
Communist countries traditionally the Marxist-Leninist states with authoritarian governments and command economies based on the Soviet model; most of the successor states are no longer Communist; see centrally planned economies
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
(CSCE)