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 62 STAT.] SWEDEN-ECONOMIC COOPERATION-JULY 3, 1948 to establish and maintain valid irtes of exchange and to reduce trade barriers; Considering that in furtneraee of these principles the Government of Sweden Las joined with other lite-minded nations in a Convention for European Economic Cooperation signed at Paris on April 16, 1948,1'$ under which the signatories of that Convention agreed to under- t.ke as their immediate task the elaboration and execution of a. joint recovery program, and that the Government of Sweden is a member of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation created pursuant to the provisions of that Convention; Considering also that, in furtherance of these principlea, the Government of the United States of America has enacted the Economic Ccpperation Act of 1948, providing for the furnishing of assistance by the United States of America to nations participat- ing in a joint prograa for Euro- pean recovery, in order to enable zuch nations through their own individual and concerted efforts to become independent of extra- ordinary outside economic assis- tance; Taking note that the Govern- ment of Sweden has already ex- pressed its adherence to the purposes and policies of the Economic Coopcration Act ofSt8; daribland alla mojliga atgarder for att faststalla och vidmakthalla valaavvgda vaxelakrser och minska handelshinder; som finna, att till beframjande av dessa principer Sveriees reger- ingforenat sig med arnra likasin- nade lander i en konventiun an- g&ende europeiskt ekonomiskt sam- arbete, undertecknad i Paris den 16 april 1948, enligt vilken signa- tirmakterna till konventionen ata- git sig att sasom sin omedelbara uppgift utarbeta och genomfora ett gemensamt ateruppbyggnadsprogram, samt att Sverigee regering ar med- lem i den Organisation for euro- peiskt ekonomiskt samarbete, som upprattats enligt forenamnda kon- ventions bestimmelser; som vidare finna, att till framjande av dessa principer Foren- ta Staternas regering antagit 1948 Ars lag om ekonomiskt samarbete an- gaende bistand frAn PFrenta'Stater- nas sida till lander, som deltaga i ett gemensamt europeiskt Aturupp- byggnadsprogram i syfte att mojlig- gSra for dessa lander att genom egna och gemensamma anstrangningar bliva oberoende av sarskild ekono- misk hjalp utifran» som konstatera, att Sveriges re- gering redan givit uttryck At sin anslutning till syftebilen och principerna i 1948 arc lag om eko- nomiskt samarbete; ' Department of State publication 3145. 2543 62Stat., Pt. 1, p. 137.

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