TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTS SERIES 16-310

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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL COOPERATION

Agreement Between the

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

and INDIA

Extending the Agreement of

October 17, 2005

Effected by Exchange of Notes at 

Washington March 8 and 10, 2016
 NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE

 Pursuant to Public Law 89—497, approved July 8, 1966

(80 Stat. 271; 1 U.S.C. 113)—

“. . .the Treaties and Other International Acts Series issued

under the authority of the Secretary of State shall be competent

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international agreements other than treaties, as the case may be, 

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United States, and of the several States, without any further proof

or authentication thereof.”
 INDIA

 Scientific and Technological Cooperation

 Agreement extending the agreement of 

 October 17, 2005.

 Effected by exchange of notes at Washington

 March 8 and 10, 2016;

 Entered into force March 10, 2016.

 
The Department of State refers the Embassy of the Republic of India to the 

Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the 

Govemment of the Republic of India on Science and Technology Cooperation, 

signed at Washington October 17, 2005 ("the Agreement"), which entered into 

force March 14, 2006, and, according to its terms, will expire March 14, 2016. 

Considering science and technology cooperation to be an important field in 

which to strengthen the bilateral relationship between our two countries, 

notwithstanding Article X of the Agreement, which provides that the Agreement 

"may be amended or extended for further ten-year periods by written agreement of 

the Parties," the Depart~ent of State proposes, on behalf of the Government of the 

United States of America, that the Science and Technology Cooperation 

Agreement be extended for an additional three-year (3) period, until 

March 14, 2019. 

Both countries intend to renew the Science and Technology Agreement 

including the IPR Annexure within the extended period of three years of the 

Agreement. 
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If the Government of the Republic oflndia considers this proposal 

acceptable, the Department further proposes that this note and the Embassy's 

affirmative note in reply shall constitute an agreement between the Government of 

the United States of America and the Government ofthe Republic of India to 

extend the Agreement for a further period of three years, which shall enter into 

force on the date of the 'Embassy's note. 

Department of State, 

Washington, March 8, 2016. 

This document, which 1s a true 

and accurate copy of the 

signed original. 

A~t-WL-/ Anne Hall 

Acting Assistant Secretary 

Date: March 8, 2016 
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EMBASSY OF INDIA 

(CHANCERY) 

1101 Massachusem Ave., N.W. 

Washington. D.C. 10008 

Tel: (102) 939-7000 • fax: (101) 265-435 I 

(CONSULAR WING) 

2536, Massachusetts Ave., N.W. 

Washington, D.C. 20008 

Tel: (202) 939-9806 • fax: (202) 387-6946 

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The Embassy of the Republic of India presents its compliments to the 

Department of State of the esteemed Government of the United States of America 

and has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Department's Note Verbale 

dated March 08, 2016, which reads as follows: 

"The Department of State refers the Embassy of the Republic of India to the 

Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the 

Government of the Republic of India on Science and Technology Cooperation, 

signed at Washington October 17, 2005 ("the Agreement"), which entered into 

force on March 14, 2006 and, according to its terms, will expire on March 14, 

2016. 

Both countries intend to renew the Science and Technology Agreement 

including the IPR Annexure within the extended period of 3 years of the 

Agreement." 

The Embassy of the Republic of India, on behalf of the Government of the 

Republic of India has the honour to confirm that the proposal contained in the 

Department's Note Verbale is acceptable to the Government of the Republic of 
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India and to confirm that the Department's note and this Note in reply shall 

constitute an agreement between the Government of the United States of America 

and the Government of the Republic of India to extend the Agreement for a further 

period of three years, which shall enter into force on the date of this note.