omoting closer links between the OECD and those countries which are making re rapid progress in the reform process. For the others, the CCEET has diversified its activities, in order to meet better their evolving needs and specific priorities.
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26. Ministers stress that consistency, continuity, transparency and credibility are essential for the policies of the countries in transition to be successful and for external support to be used efficiently. They reaffirm the willingness of their governments, despite severe budgetary constraints, to help the countries in transition as much as they can and through a variety of bilateral and multilateral means.
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Ministers call on the OECD to:
continue focusing the development of its CCEET programmes on policy areas of priority importance for reforming countries and where the OECD enjoys a comparative advantage;
enhance further its co-operation with other international urganisations, the joint SIGMA programme with the EC being such an example;
devise and implement its CCEET programmes in an ever closer partnership with the reforming countries;
contribute actively to the concerted international assistance effort to Russia; [to be expanded later]
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