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The reply note of the Department of State indicating acceptability 

 of this proposal to the American side, shall constitute an understand- 

 ing between the sides concerning the extended validity of the agree- 

 ments mentioned above. 



Washington, D.C, December 31, 197 J^. 



To THE 



Department of State of the 

 United States of America 

 Washington, D.C. 



(initialed A.T>.) 



The Department of State acknowledges receipt of note number 143 

 of December 31, 1974, from the Embassy of the Union of Soviet 

 Socialist Republics which in English reads as follows : 



"The Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Eepublics calls the 

 attention of the Department of State of the United States of America 

 to the following bilateral agreements concluded between the U.S.S.R. 

 and the U.S. : 



"1. Agreement Between the Government of the Union of Soviet 

 Socialist Republics and the Government of the United States of 

 America on Certain Fishery Problems on the High Seas in the West- 

 ern Areas of the Middle Atlantic Ocean, signed in Copenhagen 

 June 21, 1973; 



"2. Agreement Between the Government of the Union of Soviet 

 Socialist Republics and the Government of the United States of 

 America on Certain Fisheries Problems in the Northeastern Part of 

 the Pacific Ocean off the Coast of the United States, signed in Moscow 

 February 21, 1973; 



"3. Agreement Between the Government of the Union of Soviet 

 Socialist Republics and the Government of the United States of 

 America Relating to Fishing Operations in the Northeastern Pacific 

 Ocean, signed in Moscow February 21, 1973 ; 



"4. Agreement Between the Government of the Union of Soviet 

 Socialist Republics and the Government of the United States of 

 America Relating to Fishing for King and Tanner Crab, signed in 

 Moscow February 21, 1973. 



"Referring to the above-mentioned agreements, the Embassy pro- 

 poses to the Department of State to consider their validity extended 

 until the conclusion of the Soviet- American negotiations on these 

 agreements, which are scheduled for February 1975. 

 " "The reply note of the Department of State indicating acceptability 

 of this proposal to the American side, shall constitute an understand- 

 ing between the sides concerning the extended validity of the agree- 

 ments mentioned above." 



The Department of State concurs with the Embassy of the Union 

 of Soviet Socialist Republics that the aforesaid agreements be ex- 

 tended through the conclusion of the meetings called for the purpose 

 of negotiations on the agreements in February 1975, and agrees that 

 this note and the Embassy's note constitute an agreement between the 

 two governments to that effect as of this date. 



Department of State, 



Washington, December 31, 1974" 



