TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTS SERIES 20-1101 

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DEFENSE 

Cooperation 

Agreement Between the 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

 and the NETHERLANDS 

With (xchangeV of Correcting 

Notes 

Signed at Washington July 2, 2018 

Entered into force November 1, 2020 
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Treaties Division 

MINBUZA-2021.177516 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands 

presents its compliments to the Embassy of the United States of 

America and has the honor to refer to the Agreement between the 

Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Government of 

the United States of America Establishing a Framework for Defense 

Cooperation Activities, done at Washington, July 2, 2018, which entered 

into force November 1, 2020 (the “Agreement”), and to acknowledge 

receipt of Embassy note No. 019/21, dated March 4, 2021, which reads 

as follows: 

“The Embassy of the United States of America presents its compliments 

to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and 

has the honor to refer to the Agreement between the Government of the 

United States of America and the Government of the Kingdom of the 

Netherlands Establishing a Framework for Defense Cooperation 

Activities, done at Washington, July 2, 2018, which entered into force 

November 1, 2020 (the “Agreement”). 

The Embassy wishes to inform the Ministry that the Government of the 

United States of America discovered a discrepancy between the text of 

the signed Netherlands alternat of the Agreement and the text of the 

signed United States alternat. Whereas Article VII and Article VIII are 

included in the signed Netherlands alternat, those articles were 

inadvertently omitted from the United States alternat during the printing 

process prior to signature. Due to the printing error, the United States 

alternat was subsequently signed without Article VII and Article VIII 

included. The aforementioned printing error did not occur with the 

Netherlands alternat of the Agreement which was signed with all the 

articles included. 

 Therefore, to remedy the omission in the signed United States alternat 

of the Agreement, the Embassy proposes, on behalf of the Government 

of the United States of America, that the following language be inserted 

immediately following Article VI in the signed United States alternat only 

in the signed United States alternat only. 

To the Embassy of the United States of America 

in 

Wassenaar 
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Article VII 

Access and use of facilities 

The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands may provide to the 

Government of the United States of America, and representatives or 

agents of the United States Government as mutually determined, 

unimpeded access and use of facilities and areas in the Kingdom of the 

Netherlands, as mutually determined in MoUs or other written 

arrangements subject to this Agreement. 

Article VIII 

Personnel exchanges 

This provisions of the Annex to this Agreement shall apply to the 

assignment, placement, exchange, or liaison of units and personnel 

between the Parties’ national defense organizations pursuant to the 

MoUs or other written arrangements subject to this Agreement. 

The signed Netherlands alternat of the Agreement would remain 

unchanged. 

If the foregoing proposal is acceptable to the Government of the 

Kingdom of the Netherlands, this note and the Ministry’s affirmative note 

in reply will constitute a rectification of the signed United States alternat 

of the Agreement that will become part of the official Agreement record. 

The Embassy of the United States of America avails itself of this 

occasion to renew to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the 

Netherlands the assurances of its highest consideration.” 

The Ministry, on behalf of the Government of the Kingdom of the 

Netherlands, hereby informs the Embassy that the proposal in the 

Embassy’s note is acceptable to the Government of the Kingdom of the 

Netherlands and that the Embassy’s note and this note in reply will 

constitute a rectification of the signed United States alternat of the 

Agreement that will become part of the official Agreement record. 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands avails 

itself of this opportunity to renew to the Embassy of the United States of 

America the assurances of its highest consideration. 

The Hague, 5 March 2021