if Your Excellency will be good enough to give due consideration to this budget and to have it entered as a part of the "Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Ecuador and the Government of the United States of America regarding the Establishment and Operation of a Cooperative Agricultural Station in Ecuador," the text of which is given in the aforesaid note. I avail myself of the opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration. HEALTH AND SANITATION PROGRAM Exchange of notes at Quito August 6 and 18, 1948, supplementing and Entered into force August 20, 1948;1 operative from June 30, 1948 No. 227 62 Stat. 3927; Treaties and Other International Acts Series 2003 The American Ambassador to the Minister of Foreign Affairs EXCELLENCY: EMBASSY OF THE I have the honor to refer to the notes exchanged between His Excellency the Minister Counselor of the Ecuadoran Embassy to the United States of America and His Excellency the Under Secretary of State of the United States of America on February 24, 1942,2 and the Basic Agreement, as amended, between the Republic of Ecuador and The Institute of InterAmerican Affairs, entered into in January 1943, providing for the initiation and execution of the existing cooperative health and sanitation program in Ecuador. I also refer to Your Excellency's note no. 123-DDP, of August 5, 1948, suggesting the consideration by our respective Governments of a further extension of that Agreement. As Your Excellency knows, the above referred to Basic Agreement provides that the cooperative health and sanitation program will terminate on June 30, 1948. However, considering the mutual benefits which both governments are deriving from the program, my Government agrees with the Republic of Ecuador that an extension of such program would be desirable. I have been advised by the Department of State in Washington that arrangements may now be made for the Institute to continue its participation in the cooperative program for a period of one year, from June 30, 1948, through June 30, 1949. It would be understood that, during such period of extension, 'Date of signature of technical agreement by representative of Institute of InterAmerican Affairs and Ecuadorean Minister of Social Welfare and Labor. *EAS 379, ante, p. 368. 259-333-71- -30 the Institute would make a contribution of $100,000.00 U.S. cy. to the Servicio Cooperativo Interamericano de Salud Publica for use in carrying out project activities of the program on condition that your Government would contribute to the Servicio for the same purpose the sum of 4,020,000.00 sucres. The Institute would also be willing during the same extension period to make available funds to be retained by the Institute, and not deposited to the account of the Servicio, for payment of salaries and other expenses of the members of the Institute Health and Sanitation Division Field Staff, who are maintained by the Institute in Ecuador. The amounts referred to would be in addition to the sums already required under the present Basic Agreement to be contributed and made available by the parties in furtherance of the program. If Your Excellency agrees that the proposed extension on the above basis is acceptable to your Government, I would appreciate receiving an expression of Your Excellency's opinion and agreement thereto as soon as may be possible in order that the technical details of the extension may be worked out by officials of the Ministry of Social Welfare and Labor and The Institute of Inter-American Affairs. The Government of the United States of America will consider the present note and your reply note concurring therein as constituting an agreement between our two governments, which shall come into force on the date of signature of an agreement by the Minister of Social Welfare and Labor of Ecuador and by a representative of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs embodying the above mentioned technical details. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration. I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that the Minister of Social Welfare, in note number 182-AJ., of August 17, 1948, informs me that he is prepared to sign, jointly with the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, the Agreement the text of which is transmitted herewith,3 to the end that the Cooperative Public Health and Sanitation Services which the aforesaid Institute is carrying out in Ecuador may be continued. I avail myself of the opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration. A. P. VELASCO Minister of Foreign Relations His Excellency JOHN F. SIMMONS, City. 'Not printed. |