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(2) To enjoy the use, free of cost, of the sites of such war cemeteries and/or war graves for so long as they are used solely as cemeteries and/or graves.
(3) To appoint and maintain staff to carry out their work and occupy
the accommodation required for the purpose of their operations. (4) To import free of duty such materials and implements as
required for the carrying out of their work.
I have the honour to be,
Sir.
Your obedient Servant,
(Sd.)
The Right Hon. C. R. Attlee, C.H., M.P.,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
THAKIN NU.
be
Sir,
No. 5
Mr. C. R. Attlee to Thakin Nu
10 Downing Street,
London, 17th October, 1947
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of to-day's date regarding the treatment which the Provisional Government of Burma propose to accord to the Imperial War Graves Commission pending the conclusion of a formal agreement on the subject, and to state that the arrangements therein recorded have been noted with satisfaction by the Government of the United Kingdom.
I have the honour to be,
The Hon'ble Thakin Nu,
Prime Minister of the Provisional
Government of Burma.
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Sd.)
C. R. ATTLEE.
PROTOCOL OF SIGNATURE
Ox the signature this day of the Treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Provisional Government of Burma the undersigned plenipotentiaries declare as follows:-
Having regard to the close adininistrative relations which have hitherto existed between them, and the fact that it may not in every appropriate case have proved possible by the appointed date to complete such alternative arrangements as may be needed, the Government of the United Kingdom and the Provisional Government of Burma affirm their intention co-operate to ensure that, pending the completion of such arrangements, the minimum of administrative inconvenience and disturbance shall be caused to one another.
to
(Sd.)
(Sd.)
CLEMENT RICHARD ATTLEE.
THAKIN NU.
17th October, 1947.
Wt. 1186/87 10/47 F.O.P. 34352
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