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 1592 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [59 STAT. 4. Me complazco en comunicar a Vuestra Excelencia que el Gobierno del Ecuador acepta el gentil ofrecimiento del de los Estados Unidos de America; y que, por su parte, esta igualmente dispuesto a contribuir con la suma de doscientos mil d6lares ($ 200.000,oo) para la continua- cion del programa de salud publica y saneamiento. 5. Los t6rminos y condiciones de la pr6rroga, asi como la especifica- ci6n de los trabajos que deben realizarse, seran acordados entre el Sefior Ministro de Previsi6n Social y Trabajo y el funcionario que, con este fin, designe el Instituto de Asuntos Interamericanos. 6. Ruego a Vuestra Excelencia que se digne expresar al Gobierno de los Estados Unidos de America el reconocimiento del de mi pais por esta nueva prueba de amistosa cooperacion. Valgome de la oportunidad para renovar a Vuestra Excelencia las seguridades de mi consideraci6n mas alta y distinguida. C. PONCE ENRfQTEZ. Al Excelentisimo Sefior Don ROBERT Mc. GREGOR SCOrTEN, EmbajadorExtraordinarioy Plenipotenciario de los Estados Unidos de America. Translation REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS No. 12-DDP-3. QUITO, January 15, 1945. MR. AMBASSADOR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's Ante, p. 1690. kind note no. 503, dated December 23 of last year, in which reference is made to the communications exchanged between the Department of State of the United States of America and the Embassy of Ecuador in Washington, D.C ., February 24, 1942, relating to the initiation of the cooperative program of public health and sanitation in my country, and you are good enough to remind me that, subsequent to the exchange of these communications, the Government of the United States of America allocated the sum of two million seven hundred and fifty thousand five hundred dollars ($2,750,500.00) for the carrying out of the above-mentioned program, in accordance with resolution XXX approved at the Third Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics. 2. Your Excellency adds that the Government of the United States of America is prepared, if the Government of Ecuador so desires, to make available, through the Institute of Inter-American Affairs an additional sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00) for the purpose of continuing to cooperate in carrying out the program of health and sanitation initiated in 1942, for which my Government also would contribute an equal sum which, as well as that promised by the Government of the United States of America, would be quoted at an agreed rate of exchange.

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