text: 2,000;000 roubles CO-OPERATION OF CMEA MEMBER-STATES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCTION The CMEA member-states view the development and al !-round expansion of scientific and technological _coopratlon as one ofthe maJor means for attaining prompt raise of social production efficiency and acceleration of S&T progress. Heightened and qual ltatfvely new character of the require­ ments attributed to the scientific and technological cooperation Is conditioned by several factors associated with the transition of the countries' economies to the Intensive mode of development and further deepening of the socialist economic Integration. During the current and coming five-year plan periods the CMEA member-states must solve entirely new and complicated tasks of raising the role of Intensive factors In total Increment of production. At present many vital tasks of economic and social development cannot be solved without ~Ide, ample and accelerated real lzatlon of modern achievements of S&T revolution. Under new conditions, S&T progress must assure that the production Is simultaneously labour-saving, resource-saving and ecologically harmless. Thes~ highly categorical, sometimes reci­ procally excluding, requirements never combined with each other In the past. Now they determine the tasks faced by science and technology. Reconstruction and modernization of the technological basis of production carried out In the CMEA member-states Is oriented• first of all, towards utilization of entirely new technologies resulting from fundamental scientific research. It Is necessary to ensure that the formation of scientific stock for the entire science and technology cycle Include new technology Introduction Presented by A.A. Popoudln ·430 stage; this sets new requirements for proportionate allocation of resources (cadres and finance) for various areas of scientific research. In the majority of the countries the scientific-technologi­ cal tasks which grow In volume. complexity and Importance are being solved at a relative stability of the resources allocated for scientific activities. This necessitates a search for new 
analysis: The text discusses the development and cooperation of scientific and technological progress among CMEA member-states, highlighting the importance of intensive factors in production, labor-saving, resource-saving, and ecologically harmless technologies. It also mentions the need for new technologies resulting from fundamental scientific research and the proportionate allocation of resources for various areas of scientific research. These themes suggest that the text is primarily focused on the intersection of science, technology, and economic development.