INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. Translation MINISTRY OF FOREIGN RELATIONS No. S -134- Bogotd, February 12, 1944 MR. AMBASSADOR: I have the honor to refer again to Your Excellency's Note No. 285, of January 24 last, relating to the matter of the increase in the appropriations of the Inter-American Cooperative Public Health Service. The Ministry of Labor, Hygiene and Social Welfare, upon being consulted, states that, according to the conversations held with General George C. Dunham, an expansion of the program which the aforesaid organization is now carrying on in Colombia has been agreed upon, on the basis of a contribution of six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000.00 U.S . currency) for an equal sum on the part of the Colombian Government. The details concerning the manner in which these sums will be contributed, as well as certain other details, have been contemplated in the said agreement. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration. For the Minister, the Secretary General, ALFREDO CABALLERO ESCOBAR His Excellency ARTHUR BLISS LANE, Ambassador Eztraordinaryand Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, City The Executive Vice-President of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs to the Colombian Minister of Labor, Hygiene, and Social Welfare INSTITUTE OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS OFFICE OF THE COORDINATOR OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS WASHINGTON, D . C . Bogotd, January S7, 1944 Sr. Dr. JORGE ELIECER GAITAN Ministro de Trabajo, Higiene y Prevision Social E.S.D. I have the honor to refer to the communications between His Excellency, the Ambassador of the United States of America in the Republic of Colombia, and His Excellency, the Minister of Foreign 57 stat. 1310, 133. Affairs of the Republic of Colombia, both dated October 23, 1942, and to further communications between the Ambassador and the Antp.Minister of Foreign Affairs in January 1944; and to the communi- cations between the writer of this letter and His Excellency, the Minister of Labor, Health and Social Welfare, dated October 20, 1942 2894
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