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63 STAT.] VENEZUELA-HEALTH AND SANITATION-SEPT. 7, 30, 1949 Agreement between the UnitedStates of America and Venezuela respecting September 7,30, 1949 a cooperative health and sanitation programin Venezuela, extending fT. I .A. .20081 and modifying the agreement of February 18, 1943, as extended and modiied. Effected by exchange of notes signed at Caracas Septem- ber 7 and S0, 1949; entered into force September 30, 1949, operative retroactively from June 30SO,1949. The American Ambassador to the Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Relations THE FOR*IIN SERVICE 'OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AMERICAN EMBASSY, aracas, Venezuela, September 7, 1949. No. 39 EXCELLENCY:

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' I have the honor to refer to the agreement signed September 2, 1949 between the Minister of Health and Social Assistance of the United States of Venezuela and the Chief of the Field Party of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs of the United States of America extending further the Basic Agreement, as amended, between the United States of Venezuela and the United States of America, arising out of the exchange of notes between His Excellency the Minister of Foreign Relations of Venezuela and the Ambassador of the United States of America to Venezuela on February 18, 1943, which provided for the initiation and execution of the existing cooperative health and sanitation program in Venezuela. The text of this agreement follows: EXTENSION AGREEMENT The Ministry of Health and Social Assistance (hereinafter referred to as the "Ministry") of the Government of the United States of Venezuela (hereinafter referred to as the "Government"), represented by Dr. Antonio Martin Araujo, Minister of Health and Social Assist- ance (hereinafter referred to as the "Minister"), and The Institute of Inter-American Affairs (hereinafter referred to as the "Institute"), a corporate instrumentality of the Government of the United States of America, represented by its Chief of Field Party, Health and Sanitation Division, James D. Caldwell (hereinafter referred to as "Chief of Field Party"), have agreed, pursuant to the request of the Government, and in accordance with the exchange of notes dated August 26, 1949 and September 1st, 1949, [1] between the Ambassador of the United States of America and His Excellency, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, upon the following details for extending for an addi- tional period of one year from June 30, 1949, and modifying in the maimer hereinafter set forth, the Agreemet entered into on behalf 'Not printed. 57 Stat. 1126; 58 Stat. 1446; 1 Stat., Pt. 3, p. 3271 . Ante, p. 2695. 2781