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higher and specialized secondary educational establishments and
vocational training centers. (Table 3.1.2.)
Table 3.1.2. Number of Educational Establishments Built, Under
Construction or to Be Built with Soviet Assistance
in African Countries (January 1, 1981)
by agreement
Total
in operation
Higher educational
establishments
by agreement
in operation
Including
Specialized secondary
educational establishments,
schools
by agreement
in operation
Educational centers
by
agreement
in operation
142 96 18 10 22 8 102 72
Fifteen hospitals and six maternity homes were built in African
countries with Soviet aid. Hundreds of Soviet medical personnel
were working in African countries where they enjoy deserved respect.
The main functions in implementing economic and technical cooperation
with foreign countries have been assigned to the USSR
State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations which was in
charge of negotiations with foreign partners on economic and technical
cooperation, prepared inter-governmental agreements, protocols
and other documents. Along with the Committee, practical
work on the implementation of cooperation was carried out by ministries-general
suppliers, design bureaus, all-Union foreign trade
organizations of the Soviet Union. Enterprises in all Soviet republics
manufactured machinery and equipment for the projects under construction
in African countries.
The economic and technical cooperation between the USSR and
developing countries was implemented, as a rule, on the basis of
inter-governmental agreements. There were three main types of such
agreements:
- Agreements on economic and technical cooperation which
envisaged a full list of the objects of cooperation (projects); mutual
obligations of the parties concerned; the size and conditions of the
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