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3928 Entry into force. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. Basic Agreement to be contributed and made available by the parties in furtherance of the program. If Your Excellency agrees that the proposed extension on the above basis is acceptable to your Government, I would appreciate receiving an expression of Your Excellency's opinion and agreement thereto as soon as may be possible in order that the technical details of the extension may be worked out by officials of the Ministry of Social Welfare and Labor and The Institute of Inter-American Affairs. The Government of the United States of America will consider the present note and your reply note concurring therein as constituting an agreement between our two governments, which shall come into force on the date of signature[1] of an agreement by the Minister of Social Welfare and Labor of Ecuador and by a representative of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs embodying the above mentioned technical details. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration. JOHN F. SIMMONS His Excellency Doctor ANTONIO PARRA VELASCO, Ministerfor ForeignAffairs, Quito. The EcuadoranMinister of ForeignAffairs to the American Ambassador REPtBLICA DEL ECUADOR MINISTERIO DE RELACIONES EXTERIORES NO 133-DDP. DEPARTAMENTO DIPLOMATICO QUITO, a 18 de Agosto de 1948. SENOR EMBAJADOR: Tengo el honor de llevar a conocimiento de Vuestra Excelencia, que el seflor Ministro de Previsi6n Social, en nota ndmero 182-AJ ., de 17 de agosto de 1948, me manifiesta estar listo a suscribir con el Instituto de Asuntos Interamericanos (The Institute of Inter-american Affairs) el Convenio cuyo texto se acompafia, a efecto de que continden los Servicios Cooperativos de Salud Publica y Saneamiento que realiza en el Ecuador el mencionado Instituto. VAlgome de la oportunidad para reiterar a Vuestra Excelencia las seguridades de mi mas alta y distinguida consideraci6n. A P VELASCO Antonio Parra Velasco ANEXO. p] Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores Al Excelentisimo Sefior Don JOHN F. SIMMONS, EmbajadorExtraordinarioy Plenipotenciariode los Estados Unidos de Norte America. Presente. ' Aug. 20, 1948. Not printed.