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 62 STAT.] PHILIPPINES-EXCHANGE OF PUBLICATIONS-April 12, 1948 2025 June 7, 1948 publications to a port or other appropriate place reasonably con- venient to the exchange office of the other Government. 6. The present agreement shall not be considered as a modification of any existing exchange agreement between a department or agency of one of the Governments and a department or agency of the other Government. Upon the receipt of a note from Your Excellency indicating that the foregoing provisions are acceptable to the Government of the Republic of the Philippines, the Government of the United States of America will consider that this note and your reply constitute an agree- ment between the two Governments on this subject, the agreement to enter into force on the date of your note in reply. Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consider- ation. EMMET O'NEAL His Excellency ELPIDIO QUIRINO, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines. The Philippine Undersecretaryof ForeignAffairs to the American Charge d'Affaires ad interim REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS MANILA, June 7, 1948 SIR: With reference to the Ambassador's note of April 12, 1948, and to the conversations between representatives of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and representatives of the Government of the United States of America in regard to the exchange of official publications, I have the honor to inform you that the Government of the Republic of the Philippines agrees that there shall be an exchange of official publications between the two Governments in accordance with the following provisions: 1. Each of the two Governments shall furnish regularly a copy of each of its official publications which is indicated in a selected list prepared by the other Government and communicated through diplomatic channels subsequent to the conclusion of the present agreement. The list of publications selected by each Government may be revised from time to time and may be extended, without the necessity of subsequent negotiations, to include any other official publication of the other Government not specified in the list, or publications of new offices which the other government may establish in the future. 2. The official exchange office for the transmission of publications of the Government of the United States of America shall be the

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