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 3260 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. ensayo de cooperaci6n constituya nuevo motivo para el mejor cono- cimiento de nuestros dos paises. 8. Con respecto a la posibilidad de que se conceda a funcionarios Norteamericanos ciertos privilegios y excenciones constantes en la nota a que respondo, creo que no es posible pronunciarse de momento, pues habrA que hacer un detenido estudio de la Legislaci6n ecua- toriana, para ver de conformar la concesi6n de dichos privilegios con las disposiciones legales pertinentes. Valgome de esta oportunidad pars renovar a Vuestra Excelencia las seguridades de mi mAs alta y distinguida consideraci6n, C. PONCE ENRfQUEZ. Al Excelentisimo Sefior DON ROBERT Mc. GREGOR SCOTTEN EmbajadorExtraordinarioy Plenipotenciariode los Estados Unidos de America. Translation REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR MINISTRY OF FOREIGN RELATIONS 28-DDP-5 QUITO, January 22, 1945. Mr. AMBASSADOR: I have the honor to reply to Your Excellency's courteous note number 18 of the 22d of the current month, in which, with reference to the conversations held with the Minister of Public Education and Mr. Kenneth Holland, President of the "Inter-American Educational Foundation Inc." and other officials of the Government of Ecuador concerning the possibility of undertaking a cooperative program of education, you inform me that the United States Government is pre- pared to comply with the Ecuadoran Government's desire to carry out that project which assuredly would serve to stimulate the exchange of educational ideas and methods between the two countries. 2. Your Excellency informs me that the United States Government, acting through the "Inter-American Educational Foundation Inc." will cooperate in the said educational program by making available the sum of $100,000 at a minimum rate of exchange-provided that the Government of Ecuador for its part allocates for that purpose an amount equivalent to $50,000 at the same rate of exchange-as well as such personnel and other essentials as it may consider necessary to provide. 3. Your Excellency states that the United States Government acting through the Foundation, will send such specialists as may be neces- sary to collaborate with the Ecuadoran personnel. The specialized personnel is to be under the direction of a North American official who will be the special representative of the Foundation. 4. You indicate that, in accordance with the decisions made in agreement with the Minister of Education, the projects and activities to be undertaken, as well as the other details related to the develop- ment of the cooperative educational program, must be duly carried out by mutual agreement between the Ecuadoran officials and the North American specialists.

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