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62 STAT.] URUGUAY-HEALTH AND SANITATION-APR . 8 , 9 , 11, 23, 1946 auguration and execution of a cooperative health and sanitation program in Uruguay in conformity with Resolution XXX, approved at the Third Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics held in Rio de Janeiro in January 1942. The agreement of November 1943 arose out of correspondence on November 13, 17, and 18, 1943,[1] between General Goerge C. Dunham, as Executive Vice President of The Institute of Inter-American Affairs and Sr. Dr. don Luis Mattiauda, as Uruguayan Minister of Public Health, which exchange of correspondence was based upon an exchange of diplomatic notes under dates of October 1, 1943 and November 1, 1943, between the Honorable A. A . Berle, Jr., as Acting Secretary of State, on behalf of the United States of America, and Sr. Dr. don Juan Carlos Blanco, Ambassador of Uruguay to the United States of America, on behalf of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay. I have the further honor to refer to the letter dated August 29, 1945 from Sr. Dr. don Luis Mattiauda, the Uruguayan Minister of Public Health, to General George C. Dunham, President of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, proposing the extension of the health and sanitation program, and to recent conversations which have taken place between you, as Minister of Public Health of the Government of Uruguay, and Dr. H. Jackson Davis, as the Chief of Field Party in Uruguay of the Health and Sanitation Division of The Institute of Inter-American Affairs, concerning the possibility of extending such program. As the duly authorized representative of The Institute of Inter- American Affairs, I have the honor of informing you, Mr. Minister, that the Government of the United States of America, as represented by The Institute of Inter-American Affairs, is in agreement with the proposal that the cooperative program of health and sanitation be extended, and I therefore have the pleasure officially to propose to you, Mr. Minister, the continuation of the mentioned cooperative health and sanitation program being carried out in Uruguay, upon the following terms and conditions: 1. The contribution of the parties called for in the agreement of November 1943, which may not yet have been made upon the effec- tive date of this proposed extension agreement, shall be paid over in accordance with the provisions of the agreement of November 1943, to the Servicio Cooperativo Interamericano de Salud Pdblica (herein- after called the "S.C.I .S .P ."), which is the special entity within and subordinated to the Ministry of Public Health of the Uruguayan Government and through which the cooperative program of health and sanitation is being carried out. 2. In addition to the contribution of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) U. S . currency on the part of the Government of Uruguay and the contribution of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) U. S. currency on the part of The Institute of Inter- American Affairs required to be made to the cooperative health and sanitation program by the parties to the agreement of November Not printed. 4111 58 Stat. 1434. S. .I.S.P. Additional funds.