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 59 SSAT.] NICARAGUA-HEALTH AND SANITATION PROGRAM-MAR. 30, 31, 1944 Agreement between the United States of America and Nicaragua respect- March 30, 31 , 1944 ing a health and sanitation program. Effected by exchange of notes [E. A. s.484] signed at Managua March 30 and 31, 1944. The American Charge d'Affaires ad interim to the Nicaraguan Minister for ForeignAffairs EMBASSY OF THE UNrTED STATES OF AMERICA MANAGUA, D. N., NICARAGUA, March 30, 1944. No. 61. EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to refer to the notes exchanged between His Ex- cellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua and this Em- bassy dated May 18, 1942 and May 22, 1942 respectively relative to the Cooperative Program of Health and Sanitation in Nicaragua provided for in Resolution XXX approved at the third meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics held in Rio de Janeiro in January of 1942. In accordance with the notes under reference, the United States of America has contributed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) for the Cooperative Health and Sanitation Program that is now being carried out in Nicaragua. If desired by the Government of Nicaragua, the Government of the United States of America, through the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, an agency of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, is prepared to contribute an additional sum of Three Hun- dred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) for the purpose of cooperating with the Government of Nicaragua in extending the cooperative pro- gram of public health and sanitation and providing for the termina- tion of the program within a three-year period beginning April 1, 1944. It would be understood that the Government of Nicaragua will contribute the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000.00) to be combined with the funds contributed by the United States of America and expended over the same three-year period for the cooperative program of health and sanitation in Nicaragua. The kind of work and specific projects to be undertaken and the costs thereof would be mutually agreed to by the appropriate official of Your Excellency's Government and an appropriate official of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs. It would be understood that the funds contributed by both Govern- ments will be spent by the special agency created within the Direc- ci6n General de Sanidad by Your Excellency's Government, which special agency is known as the Servicio Cooperativo Inter-Americano 57 Stat. 1307. Additional U. S. contribution. Special agency: 66347°--47--PT. II -63 1673

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