INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [58 STAT. gust 18 and Agreement between the United States of America and Peru extending [E.cA. .t1944 with modifications the agreement of May 19 and 20, 1943 respecting the Inter-American Cooperative Food Production Service. Effected by exchange of notes signed at Lima August 18 and October 10, 1944; effective May 19, 1944. The American Ambassador to the PeruvianMinisterfor ForeignAffairs EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA No. 216 Lima, August 18, 1944 EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to refer to the agreement of May 19, 1943, relating to the establishment of the Inter-American Cooperative Food Pro- duction Service in Peru, which agreement was effected by an exchange 57 tat.l 5. of notes dated May 19, and 20, 1943, between the American Am- bassador in Lima and the Peruvian Minister of Agriculture. With the Ambassador's note of May 19, 1943 there was enclosed an English text of a Memorandum of Agreement signed by the Ambassador for the Institute of Inter-American Affairs and by the Minister of Agri- culture for the Republic of Peru. With the Minister's note of May 20, 1943 there was enclosed a Spanish text of the Memorandum of Agreement, similarly signed. In the Ambassador's note of May 19, 1943, it was stated "that this exchange of notes constitutes the agreement for the establishment of the Inter-American Cooperative Food Production Service in Peru." In the Memorandum of Agreement accompanying the exchange of notes it was stated as follows: " Thirteenth-The present agreement will be for the dura- tion of one year, continuing from the date of signature of the Note of Transmittal, and may be extended in the judgment of the contracting parties." It appears that the agreement of May 19, 1943 was approved on the part of the Government of Peru by Resoluci6n Suprema 286, May 20, 1943. I am informed that no further action on the part of the Government of the United States of America was requisite. On June 1, 1944 there was signed in Lima by the Executive Vice- President of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs and by the Minister of Agriculture of Peru a Memorandum of Agreement which reads in English and Spanish as follows: "LIMA, June 1, 1944 "MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT Eteesio on prior " 1 The memorandum of agreement executed May 19, 1943 between The Institute of Inter-American Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture for the Republic of Peru providing for a cooperative 1484
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