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tion to do so from the United States Government and shall acquire 

 title therein, subject to the reservation in the United States and 

 Saudi Arabian Governments of a royalty-free, nonexclusive, irrev- 

 ocable license with the right to issue sublicenses to any foreign 

 government pursuant to a treaty or agreement said foreign govern- 

 ment has with the United States or Saudi Arabian Government. 

 I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that if the foregoing 

 conditions are acceptable to the Government of Saudi Arabia, the 

 Government of the United States of America will consider this note, 

 together with your note in reply concurring with the above, as con- 

 stituting agreement between the two Governments with respect to 

 this matter, such agreement to enter into force on the date of your 

 note in reply. 



Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest 

 consideration. 



Talcott W. Seelte 

 Charge d? Affaires^ ad interim 

 Enclosures : [^] 



1. Report of June 1964 



2. Form of letter of credit. 



His Excellency 



Sayyid Omar Sakkaf, 



Deputy Minister of Foreign Ajfaii's^ 

 Ministry of Foreign Affairs^ 

 Jidda. 



Translation 



Kingdom of Satjdi Arabia 

 Ministry of Foreign Affairs 



7/25/85 Hijra 



No. 90/15/1/9356/2 Corresponding to: [11/19/65.] 



Mr. Charge d'affaires of the United States: 



I have the pleasure to inform you that I have received your note 

 No. 362, dated 11/11/65, concerning the desire of His Majesty's Gov- 

 ernment to construct a water desalting and electric power plant in 

 the Jeddah area and your reference to the assumption by your Honor- 

 able Government of responsibility for negotiating contracts on behalf 

 of His Majesty's Government with qualified American firms for the 

 architectural and engineering study and design and for the supply 

 of construction and installation equipment, required by the project, 

 in accordance with the obligations set forth in your aforementioned 

 note. 



I have the pleasure to inform you of the approval of the Kingdom's 

 competent authorities to carry out the project in accordance with the 

 terms and provisions set forth in your aforementioned note. 



Therefore, His Majesty's Government agrees to consider your afore- 

 mentioned note and our present reply thereto as an agreement between 

 our two Governments. 



Please accept the assurances of our highest consideration. 



Omar Sakkaf 



^ See footnote ante, pp. 899-900. 



