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{{hi|No. 2430. EXCHANGE OF NOTES CONSTITUTING AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF BRAZIL FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF BRAZILIAN COMMERCIAL ARREARS WITH THE UNITED KINGDOM. RIO DE JANEIRO, 1 OCTOBER 1953^[1]

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Exchange of notes constituting an agreement^[2] terminating certain parts of and supplementing the above-mentioned Agreement. Rio de Janeiro, 16 August 1955

Official texts: English and Portuguese.

Registered by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 18 November 1955.

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Her Majesty's Ambassador at Rio de 7aneiro to the Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs

BRITISH EMBASSY

Rio de Janeiro, August 16, 1955

Your Excellency,

I have the honour to refer to the Notes exchanged on the 1st of October, 1953, between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Her Britannic Majesty's Embassy concerning the settlement of the Brazilian commercial arrears due to the United Kingdom, and to propose that the third sentence of paragraph III and the whole of paragraphs IV and VI of the said Exchange of Notes shall cease to have effect from to-day's date.

2. If the Government of Brazil agree, I have the honour to propose that your reply in that sense and this Note be regarded as constituting an Agreement between our two Governments in this matter.

I avail, &c.

G. H. Thompson

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1. United Nations, Treaty Series, Vol. 183, p. 207 and Vol. 186, p. 373.
2. Came into force on 16 August 1955 by the terms of the said notes.