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61 STAT.] ECUADOR-CIVIL AVIATION MISSION-OCT. 24, 27, 1947 Vhlgome de la oportunidad para renovar a Vuestra Excelencia las seguridades de mi mhs alta y distinguida consideraci6n. Por el Mlinrm-5 ^ :!n v t 4017 Al Excelentisimo Sefor Don JOHN F. SIMMONS, Embajador Extraordinarioy Plenipotenciariode los Estados Unidos de America. Translation REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR URGENT MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DIPLOMATIC DEPARTMENT No. 241-DDP QUITO, October 27, 1947 MR. AMBASSADOR: I have the honor to reply to Your Excellency's courteous note No. 372 of October 24 instant, in which you are good enough to inform me A n t. p. 4013. concerning the conversations with the Minister of National Defense, in which Your Excellency and the Members of the Mission sent by the United States as part of the program of the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation took part, for the prime purpose of entering into arrangements for the interchange of civil aviation technicians between our respective countries for the development of civil aviation in Ecuador, and the extent to which my Government would be disposed to participate in financing such a program. With reference to these conversations and the desires expressed to the Department of State by the Ecuadoran Embassy in Washington on April 8 last, regarding the sending of one or more expert technicians in civil aviation to this country, Your Excellency sends me a Memorandum containing 14 points, which the Ministry of National Defense has found to be acceptable, and on which the Government of Ecuador is asked to express its opinion as soon as possible. Furthermore, Your Excellency points out the special urgency with which it is necessary to reach a general agreement on