C. COLOMBIA 

 1. FISHING RIGHTS 



a. Arrangement Respecting the Status of Serrana and Quitai 

 Sueno Banks and Roncador Cay, April 10, 1928* 



Eifected ly exchange of notes at Washington AfrillO, 1928; Entered 

 into force April 10, 1928. 



EXCHANGE OF NOTES 



[The Minister of Colombia to the Secretary of S:fate'\ 



[Translation] 



Colombian Legation, 

 No. 352 . . Washington, D.G., April 10, 1928. 



The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- 

 tiary of the Kepublic of Colombia, duly authorized by his Govern- 

 ment, proposes to His Excellency the Secretary of State of the United 

 States the conclusion, by exchange of notes of the following agree- 

 ment respecting the status of Serrana and Quita Sueho Banks and 

 Roncador Cay, situated in the western part of the Caribbean Sea, that 

 is to say, that whereas both Governments have claimed the right of 

 sovereignty over these Islands; and whereas the interest of the United 

 States lies primarily in the maintenance of aids to navigation; and 

 whereas Colombia shares the desire that such aids shall be maintained 

 without interruption and furthermore is especially interested that her 

 nationals shall uninterruptedly possess the opportunity of fishing in 

 tJie w^aters adjacent to those Islands, the status quo in respect to the 

 matter shall be maintained and the Government of Colombia will re- 

 frain from objecting to the maintenance by the United States of the 

 services which it has established or may establish for aids to naviga- 

 tion, and the Government of the United States will refrain from ob- 

 jecting to the utilization, by Colombian nationals, of the waters appur- 

 tenant to the Islands for the purpose of fishing. 



(Signed) Enrique Olaya. 



His Excellency Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State, Washington.. 



[The Secretary of State to the Minister of ColomMal 



Department of State, 

 Washington, April 10, 1928. 

 Sir: The undersigned, the Secretary of State, has the honor tO' 

 acknowledge and take cognizance of a note of this date from the: 



* Citation: TS 760 % ; IV Trenwith 4023 ; 6 Bevans 904. 



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