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 63 STAT.] PARAGUAY-AGRICULTURAL PROGRAM- Jan. 20, Mar. 3, 1947 2897 ROGRAM-June 30, 1948, July 22, Aug. 11, 1949 In communicating to Your Excellency my Government's wishes as expressed in the communication transcribed above, I do so with the assurance that Your Excellency will interpose your good offices with your Government in accordance with the terms of the said communication. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to you, Mr. Ambassador, the assurances of my most distinguished consideration. FEDERICO CHAVES His Excellency Ambassador Eetraordinaryand Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, WILLARD L. BEAULAC. City. - The American Charged'Affaires ad interim to the Paraguayan Minister of ForeignRelations and Worship No. 397 ASUNCI6N, March 3, 1947 EXCELLzENCr: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's note no. 24 of January 20,1947 transcribing the text of a communica- tion (S. N. 13) dated January 16, 1947 addressed to Your Excellency by the Minister of Agriculture, with regard to the extension of the contract with STICA, or Servicio Tecnico Interamericano de Coopera- ci6n Agrfcola. My Government, apprised of the desire of Your Excellency's Gov- ernment to continue this useful program through an extension of the present contract, has instructed me to agree to such an extension, from December 31, 1947 to June 30, 1948, with financial contributions in the new contract to be in the amount of 100,000 dollars for Your Excellency's Government and 50,000 dollars from the Institute of Inter-American Affairs. The Institute will also make a separate allocation of funds necessary to pay the salaries, living expenses, travel and transportation costs, and other administrative expenses of the members of the Institute Field Party in Paraguay and other Institute employees incurred after execution of the new agreement. The estimated sum of approximately 85,000 dollars will be allocated for these purposes separately and apart from the funds to be deposited to the account of STICA by the Institute. The texts in English and Spanish of the new contract are enclosed herewith. They will be signed at the convenience of Your Excel- lency's Government on behalf of the Institute by Mr. William Brister, Vice-President of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, a corporate instrumentality of the Government of the United States of America. It is a source of sincere gratification to my Government to learn that the cooperative program which our two Governments have under- taken in accordance with inter-American agreements to implement Ante, p. 2894. Period of extesmon. Contributions.

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