SIGNATURE OF AMERICAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL AGREEMENT

UNCLAS STATE 014838 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: ASCH OFDP PGOV PREL TS SUBJECT: SIGNATURE OF AMERICAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL AGREEMENT ¶1. The United States Embassy in Tunis recently completed negotiations regarding the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Tunisia concerning the American Cooperative School of Tunisia ("the Agreement"). The Ambassador is authorized to sign the Agreement on behalf of the Government of the United States of America based on the clean versions of the English, French, and Arabic texts. Any substantive changes to those texts should be cleared by Washington prior to signature. ¶2. Post is instructed to deliver three clean versions of the Agreement to the appropriate GOT officials and request their review and comments by February 26, 2010. ¶3. The Ambassador is authorized to sign the three versions of the Agreement on behalf of the United States if the GOT does not have any substantive comments. If the Ambassador is unable to sign the Agreements, the DCM will sign on behalf of the United States. Any substantive changes to the text will require clearance by Washington prior to signature. Once the text is finalized, the three versions of the Agreement may be printed on standard white paper for signature. ¶4. In preparing the final text, the principle of the alternate should be observed (11 FAM 730.5.2). Once the three versions of the agreement (in English, French, and Arabic) have been signed, the Embassy should email signed copies of the Agreements to the Department(treatyofficer@state.gov),and transmit via Federal Express the U.S. signed originals to the Department c/o Michelle Cannon, 2201 C St., NW, Office of Treaty Affairs, Room 5420, Washington, DC 20520 (11 FAM 723.6). The agreements will be published and reported to Congress in accordance with the Case-Zablocki Act, 1 USC 112b. CLINTON