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 61 STAT.] ECUADOR-COOPERATIVE EDUCATION-- Oct. 219 3911 Nov. 14,1947 3911 in sucres of Seven Thousand Dollars ($7,000.00 U .S. currency), com- puted at the rate of exchange of thirteen sucres, forty centavos (S/.13.40) per dollar, which amount, added to the Seven Thousand One Hundred and Sixty-eight Dollars ($7,168.00 U.S. currency) that the Institute has at its disposal, will cover the financial requirements of the Servicio Cooperativo de Educaci6n in Ecuador until June 30, 1948. 4. I therefore take pleasure in informing Your Excellency that the Ministry of Public Education is prepared to sign the Agreement in question for extension of the Servicio Cooperativo de Educaci6n Pib- lica in Ecuador with the Representative of the Education Division of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, in conformity with the text proposed by Your Excellency and with what was agreed upon in the aforesaid conversations that took place between the competent officials. I avail myself of this welcome opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration. For the Minister: Lms COLOMA SILVA Dr. LuIS COLOMA SILVA. Under Secretary ad interim. His Excellency JOHN F. SIMMONS, Ambassador Extraordinaryand Plenipotentiaryof the United States of America.

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