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 57 STAT.] EGYPT-CRIMINAL OFFENSES, JURISDICTION-MAR. 2, 1943 1211 Having taken cognizance of this note, His Excellency handed to His Excellency the Minister of the United States his response to this note. On this occasion, His Excellency the President of the Council of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated to His Excellency the Minister of the United States that the Egyptian Government had granted this immunity only in order to strengthen the relations of friendship which happily exist between Egypt and the United States, and by reason of the particular situation resulting from the war, and that this exceptional arrangement will terminate automatically at the close of the war between the United States of America and the Axis countries in order to permit a return to the common law. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the present Proces-Verbal has been drawn up and signed in two original copies. The Minister of the The President of the Council of Ministers, United States of America, Minister of Foreign Affairs, ALEXANDER KIRK M. NAHAS

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