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 61 STAT.] NEPAL-FRIENDSHIP AND COMMERCE-APR. 25, 1947 Please accept, Your Highness, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. JOSEPH C. SATrERTHWAITE His Highness The Maharaja PADMA SHUM SHERE JUNG BAHADUR RANA Prime Minister and Supreme Commander-in-Chief Nepal The Prime Minister and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Nepal to the Chief of the United States Special Diplomawze Mission YOUR EXCELLENCY, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note dated 25th April 1947, in which there is set forth the understanding of your Government of the agreement reached through recent conversations held at Kathmandu between the representatives of the Government of the United States of America and the representatives of the Govern- ment of the Kingdom of Nepal, in the following terms: The Government of the United States of America and the Govern- ment of the Kingdom of Nepal, desiring to strengthen the friendly relations happily existing between the two countries, to further mutu- ally advantageous commercial relations between their peoples, and to maintain the most-favored-nation principle in its unconditional and unlimited form as the basis of their commercial relations, agree to the following provisions: 1. The United States of America and the Kingdom of Nepal will establish diplomatic and consular relations at a date which shall be fixed by mutual agreement between the two Governments. 2. The diplomatic representatives of each Party accredited to the Government of the other Party shall enjoy in the territories of such other Party the rights, privileges, exemptions and immunities ac- corded under generally recognised principles of international law. The consular officers of each Party who are assigned to the Govern- ment of the other Party, and are duly provided with exequaturs, shall be permitted to reside in the territories of such other Party at the places where consular officers are permitted by the applicable laws to reside; they shall enjoy the honorary privileges and the immunities accorded to officers of their rank by general international usage; and they shall not, in any event, be treated in a manner less favorable than similar officers of any third country. 3. All furniture, equipment and supplies intended for official use in a consular or diplomatic office of the sending state shall be per- mitted entry into the territory of the receiving state free of all customs duties and internal revenue or other taxes whether imposed upon or by reason of importation. 2569

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