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3. The Government of the Republic of Tunisia will facilitate the 

 establishment and operation of the Sorting Center including but not 

 necessarily limited to equipment and supplies, transportation, labo- 

 ratory, and living accommodations, and will assist in the recruitment 

 of Tunisian personnel including two or more assistant supervisors ; 



4. The Government of the Republic of Tunisia will permit and 

 facilitate shipments free of custom duties and all other taxes on all 

 specimens to and from the Sorting Center. Given the fragile and 

 special nature of the specimens, the Government of Tunisia will 

 permit their immediate clearance through customs; 



5. The Government of the Republic of Tunisia shall exempt from 

 all custom duties and all other taxes shipments into and out of Tunisia 

 of all supplies and equipment intended for use at the Sorting Center ; 

 and 



6. The Government of the Republic of Tunisia shall accord the 

 American Director and his non-Tunisian associates : 



a) Free entry into and out of Tunisia for all personal property 

 introduced into Tunisia for their own use within a period of six months 

 from the date of their assignment to the Sorting Center ; 



b) Temporary free entry of one automobile per family during the 

 period of their assignment to the Sorting Center ; 



c) Exemption from the payment of Tunisian income taxes and 

 other direct taxes on income derived from activities related to the 

 Sorting Center. 



If your Government agrees with the above proposal, I propose that 

 this note and your affirmative reply to that effect constitute an agree- 

 ment effective on the date of your reply. 



Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest 

 consideration. 



Francis H. Russell 

 His Excellency 



Habib Bourguiba, Jr., 



Minister of Foreign Affairs^ 

 Tunis. 



The Tunisian Director of International Cooperation to the American 



Ambassador 



KEPUBLIQUE TUNISIENNE 



ATJX AFFAIRE ETRANGERES 

 SECRETARIAT d'eTAT 



Tunis, Septemler 36, 1966 

 Excellency : 



I have the honor to refer to your note of September 26, 1966, the 

 terms of which ate as follows : 



"I have the honor to refer to discussions between representatives 

 of the Government of the United States and the Government of the 

 Republic of Tunisia in which it appeared that both governments share 

 an interest in the establishment and operation of a Mediterranean 

 Marine Sorting Center and that both governments recognize the 

 great scientific importance that such a Center can have for basic 



