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Press Release Issued by the Department of State, August 16, 1935
Announcement Relative to U. S.–Panama Treaty Negotiations
At a meeting held yesterday at the State Department the Commissioners of Panama, Dr. Ricardo J. Alfaro and Dr. Narciso Garay, and Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles, authenticated various texts which have been agreed upon in connection with the treaty12 and conventions13 which for some time have been under negotiation between the Governments of Panama and the United States. The agreements cover the main questions which have been the subject of negotiation.
It is the intention of the Panamanian Commissioners to proceed to Panama at the call of their Government in order to report in detail concerning the accomplishments of the negotiation. Assistant Secretary Welles is shortly leaving Washington on vacation. Upon the return to Washington of the Panamanian Commissioners and of Assistant Secretary Welles, it is expected that the various agreements reached will be taken up again with a view to their formal conclusion.
- Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation signed at Washington on March 2, 1936; ratifications exchanged July 27, 1939; Department of State Treaty Series No. 945.↩
- The conventions referred to were those for the regulation of radio communications, the transfer to Panama of two naval radio stations, and the trans-isthmian highway. The conventions were all signed March 2, 1936; ratifications of the convention on the trans-isthmian highway were exchanged July 27, 1939 (Treaty Series No. 946), but the other conventions were not approved by the U. S. Senate. For texts of the radio communications convention and the convention providing for the transfer of two naval radio stations, see Senate Executive Reports 6 and 7, 76th Cong., 1st sess.↩