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Exchange of Notes between Canada and the United States of America to amend the Notes of November 12, 1953 concerning the Establishment of a Joint Canada-United States of America Committee on Trade and Economic Affairs [1961] CATSer 5 (2 October 1961)

E103752 - CTS 1961 No. 10

EXCHANGE OF NOTES BETWEEN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO AMEND THE NOTES OF NOVEMBER 12, 1953 CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JOINT CANADA-UNITED STATES OF AMERICA COMMITTEE ON TRADE AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRS

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The Secretary of State of the United States of America to the Canadian Ambassador to the United States of America

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

WASHINGTON, October 2, 1961

His Excellency A. D. P. Heeney,
Ambassador of Canada

Excellency:

I have the honor to refer to the Embassy's Note No. 821 of November 12, 1953 and the Department's reply of November 12, 1953 by which our two Governments agreed to the establishment of a Joint United States-Canadian Committee on Trade and Economic Affairs.

I have the honor to propose that the United States membership should henceforth include on a permanent basis the Secretary of the Interior. It is the United States view that there is great and growing interest in matters concerned with the development and exchange of energy resources and that there should be regular consultation and cooperation between the two countries in this field.

If the Government of Canada is agreeable to the foregoing proposal, I suggest that the present Note and your reply to that effect should constitute an amendment to the agreement of November 12, 1953 between our two Governments.

Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration,

William R. Tyler

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The Canadian Ambassador to the United States of America to the Secretary of State of the United States of America

CANADIAN EMBASSY

WASHINGTON, October 2, 1961

No. 695

The Honourable Dean Rusk,
Secretary of State of the United States
Washington, D.C.

Sir,

I have the honour to refer to your note of October 2, 1961, in which you propose that the United States membership of the Joint United States-Canadian Committee on Trade and Economic Affairs, which was established by an exchange of notes between our two Governments on November 12, 1953, should henceforth include on a permanent basis the Secretary of the Interior.

I have the honour to inform you that the Government of Canada concurs in this proposal and agrees that your note and this reply should constitute an amendment to the agreement of November 12, 1953, between our two Governments.

Accept, Sir, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration.

A. D. P. Heeney