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 58 STAT.] MEXICO-AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION-JAN. 6, 27, 1944 Agreement between the United States of America and Mexico respecting the establishment of an Agricultural Commission. Effected by ex- change of notes signed at Mexico City January6 and 27, 1944. The American Ambassador to the MeaicanMinister of ForeignAffairs EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA No. 2180 Mexico, D.F ., January6, 1944 EXCEIF NCrY: I have the honor to refer to conversations which took place in Mexico City between the Minister of Agriculture and Fomento of the United Mexican States, Ingeniero Marte R. Gomez, and the Secretary of Agri- culture of the United States of America, the Honorable Claude R. Wickard, on the occasion of the visit of the latter to Mexico in 1942, with reference to the mutual advantages to the economies of the two countries of close collaboration in the field of agriculture and with reference to the establishment of a permanent Mexican-United Agri- cultural Commission. These conversations have been supplemented by conversations between Your Excellency and myself and between this Embassy and the Minister of Agriculture and Fomento, Ingeniero Marte R. Gomez. I now have the honor under instructions from my Government, formally to propose the establishment of a permanent Mexican- United States Agricultural Commission on the basis set forth below. As a result of the conversations which have taken place on this matter it is intended that this Commission would be a technical Commission and therefore composed of technicians in agriculture. In view of the fact that it is a technical commission which will occupy itself with agricultural programs of mutual interest to the two Governments, the Commission would function, of course, as a separate Commission and distinct from all others. I should appreciate being informed by Your Excellency whether the proposals set forth below are agreeable to the Mexican Govern- ment. 1. There is hereby established the Mexican-United States Agricul- tural Commission with a view to (a) coordinating the cooperative activities of the Departments of Agriculture of the two Governments already in operation, and (b) carrying into effect the recommenda- tion of the Mexican-United States Commission for Economic Coopera- tion, established by the President of the United States and the Presi- dent of Mexico in April 1943, that the Departments of Agriculture of the two countries take all appropriate steps to assure active and continuous cooperation. January 6, 27,1944 [E. A. . 4211 Mexican-United States Agricultural Commission, estab- lishment. 1425

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