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 62 STAT. ECUADOR-MILITARY MISSION- July 8,12, ug. 23, 1948 3019 Sept. 21, 1948 Valgome de esta oportunidad para reiterar a Vuestra Excelencia el testimonio de mi consideraci6n mas alta y distinguida. A. Dillon Embajador del Ecuador A Su Excelencia el Sefor GEORGE C. MARSHALL Secretario de Estado Washington, D.C. Translation EMBASSY OF ECUADOR WASHINGTON No. 175 JULY 8, 1948. EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that the Chancelry of Ecuador has notified me that it has sent note No. 107-DDP, dated June 29 ['] last, to the Embassy of the United States at Quito, request- ing it to take the necessary steps for the extension of the Agreement on the Establishment of a United States Military Mission to Ecuador, which Agreement was signed at Washington on June 29, 1944 by 5stat1300 the authorized representatives of the Governments of Ecuador and of this country. The Ecuadoran Chancelry adds that the American diplomatic repre- sentative has informed him, in reply to the note in reference, that your Department would prefer to carry on in this city the negotiations con- cerning the extension and amendment of the aforesaid Agreement. In the event that such is still the desire of the Department of State, I beg Your Excellency to be good enough to let me know your decision with regard to such extension, with the following changes proposed by my Government: 1. That the following clause be added to Article 4: 58 8tat. 1301 . "(c) Upon the request of the Government of Ecuador for the with- drawal of all the personnel of the Mission in the public interest of Ecuador, without its being necessary to comply with clause (a) of this Article." 2. That Article 7 read: 58stat. 1302. "Article 7. The personnel of the Mission shall perform all such tasks of professional collaboration as may be set by the Ministry of National Defense, in consultation with the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces." I Not printed.

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