Cablegate: Tunisia: Military Grant Assistance: Legal

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UNCLAS TUNIS 000864

SIPDIS

STATE FOR PM/RSAT (LEE)
STATE FOR L/T (COOK)
STATE FOR NEA/MAG (LAWRENCE)

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: MASS MARR PGOV KTIA TS
SUBJECT: TUNISIA: MILITARY GRANT ASSISTANCE: LEGAL
REQUIREMENTS

REF: SECSTATE 05896

On April 13, Embassy received a diplomatic note from the
Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to subject
action request delivered on January 28 and again on April 8.
Translation of the note reads as follows: The Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tunisia presents its
compliments to the Embassy of the United States of America
and in reference to its Note Verbale No 506 of April 8, 2005
relating to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 between the
Government of Tunisia and the United States of America, has
the honor to inform that the National Defense Ministry does
not object to replacing the sentence "under the military
assistance program" of the second paragraph, section 505 (f)
of the Agreement, with the sentence "on a grant basis from".
HUDSON

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