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1958 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. Translation MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, RIO DE JANEIRO. DPo/251/602. (04) December 15, 1947. MR. CHARGE D'AFFAIRES: With reference to the verbal understanding reached last September with the Ambassador of the United States of America regarding the application, on the part of our countries, of the provisions of Paragraph 7 of the Resolution on the Principles Governing the General Regulation and Reduction of Armaments, ['] adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 14, 1946, I have the honor to inform you that the Government of the United States of Brazil agrees to make officially, jointly with the United States of America, the following declaration: a) Military personnel of the United States of Brazil now stationed in the territory of the United States of America, including members of the Joint Brazil-United States Defense Commission in Washington, have been and are so stationed with the full and freely given consent of the last-mentioned country; b) Military personnel of the United States of America now stationed in the territory of Brazil, including members of the Joint Brazil- United States Military Commission in Rio de Janeiro, have been and are so stationed with the full consent of the Government of Brazil; c) The Governments of the United States of Brazil and the United States of America mutually agree that the aforementioned mili- tary personnel shall continue to be so stationed until such time as the Government of the country in which they are stationed withdraws its consent thereto; d) The military personnel of each of the two countries, stationed within the territory of the other, including members of the Joint Brazil-United States Defense Commission and the Joint Brazil- United States Military Commission, does not comprise any combat forces. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to you the assurances of my very distinguished consideration. RAUL FERNANDES Mr. DAVID MCKENDREE KEY, Charge d'Affaires of the United States of America. ' United Nations. Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly during the Second Part of its First Session from 23 October to 15 December 1946, p. 66. Lake Success, 1947.