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 3910 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. Valgome de esta grata oportunidad, para reiterar a Vuestra Excelencia las seguridades de mi mas alta y distinguida consideraci6n. Por el Ministro,/4) Subse etario ad-interim r Luis Coloma Silva. Al Excelentfsimo Senor JOHN F. SIMMONS, Embajador Extraordinarioy Plenipotenciario de los Estados Unidos de America. Translation REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR MINISTRY OF FOREIGN RELATIONS DIPLOMATIC DEPARTMENT No. 265-DDP. QUrro, November 14, 1947 MR. AMBASSADOR: I have the honor to refer once more to Your Excellency's courteous communication No. 325 of October 2 last and to my communication No. 231-DDP [1] in reply, dated the 18th of the same month, regard- ing the extension of the Agreement for the functioning of the Servicio Cooperativo Interamericano de Educaci6n in Ecuador for the period between January 22 and June 30, 1948. 2. In accordance with what I took the liberty of stating in paragraph 5 of my aforesaid note, and in view of the reply of the Ministry of Public Education to my inquiry in the matter, I have the honor to inform Your Excellency today that my Government appreciates the importance and usefulness of the work being done by the Servicio Co- operativo de Educaci6n and considers it essential that it be carried through to its conclusion. Therefore, it agrees to and accepts with pleasure the proposal formulated by Your Excellency in the valued communication to which I refer, namely, to extension from January 22 to June 30, 1948, of the program which the Servicio Cooperativo Interamericano de Educaci6n is carrying out in this country; sub- ject to the provisions of the draft agreement thereunto appertaining, enclosed with Your Excellency's note No. 325 of October 2, 1947, the same that was previously discussed and agreed to by the Ministry of Public Education and Dr. Pedro Osuna, Special Representative in Ecuador of the Education Division of the Institute of Inter-Ameri- can Affairs. 3. For the purpose of making this extension of the said program effective until the date mentioned in the preceding paragraph, the Ministry of Public Education will include in its budget for the year 1948 the item necessary for that purpose; that is to say, the equivalent [Not printed.]

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