| AGREEMENT EFFECTED BY EXCHANGE OF NOTES BETWEEN INDIA AND U.S.A. FOR SALE OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS AND SERVICES New Delhi, 16 April and 17 December 1958 THE FOREIGN SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA No. 544 NEW DELHI, April 16,1958 EXCELLENCY, I have the honor to refer to the Agreement between our two Governments effected by an exchange of notes signed at Washington on March
7 and 16, 1951 . It is the understanding of my Government that Your Excelleney's Government considers the assurances contained in
that Agreement regarding transactions'under the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, as amended, to be applicable also to equipment,
materials, information and services furnished under the Mutual Security Act of 1954, that Act as amended from time to time, and such
other-applicable United States laws as ma y come into effect. I should appreciate it if Your Excellency's Government would confirm the understanding of my Government as stated above. Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. WINTHROP G. BROWN
Charge d'Affaires ad interim His Excellency JAWAHARLAL NEHRU, Minister for External Affairs, New Delhi. -------------------- MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS NEW DELHI FOREIGN SECRETARY December 17, 1958 No. FS/1402 DEAR MR. AMBASSADOR, Please refer to the following letter to the Prime Minister from Mr. Winthrop G. Brown "No. 544 New Delhi, April 16,1958 I have the honor to refer to the Agreement between our two Governments effected by an exchange of notes signed at Washington on March
7 and 16, 1951. It is the understanding of my Government that Your Excellency's Government considers the assurances contained in
that Agreement regarding transactions under the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, as amended, to be applicable also to equipment,
materials, information and services furnished under the Mutual Security Act of 1954, that Act as amended from time to time, and such
other applicable United States laws as may come into effect. I should appreciate it if Your Excellency's Government would confirm the understanding of my Government as stated above. Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. WINTHROP G. BROWN Charge dAffaires ad interim. His Excellency JAWAHARLAL NEHRU, Minister for External Affairs, New Delhi." 2. I am directed by the Government of India to confirm that the assurances contained in the Agreement between our two Governments
effected by an exchange of notes signed at Washington on March 7 and 16, 1951 are applicable also to supplies and services furnished
to the Government of India by the Government of the United States of America under the Mutual Security Act of 1954 as amended from
time to time. I am to add that in fact as is well known, the firm policy of India is to work for international peace and on no account does the Government of
India even consider the possibility of aggression against any other State. Accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration. Sd./- S. DUTT
Foreign Secretary. His Excellency Mr. ELLSWORTH BUNKER,
Ambassador of the United States of America, New Delhi.
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