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August 17, 1962

Cable from the Chinese Embassy in Mali to the General Bureau for Economic Relations with Foreign Countries, ‘Regarding the Various Issues Concerning the Experts Coming to Mali’

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Subject: Regarding the [Various] Issues Concerning the Experts Coming [to] Mali

 

General Bureau for Economic Relations with Foreign Countries:

 

1. The Director of the Malian Rural Economic Planning Department Office has suggested [a way in which] China and Mali [can] come more quickly finalize the agreement [regarding] industrial projects [covered by our] Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement. [He] hopes [that] we [will send our] industrial experts to Mali in the second half of the month of September.

 

2. Please inform [us regarding the] experts living conditions [and] salary, [as] Mali has not yet signed the [formal] Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement. With regards to sending the expert group[s] to Ghana, Mali [and other] black African countries [for the purpose of] economic aid issues, please consult the second line of Part IV of the attached document [as follows:] “....signed on this DAY, MONTH, in 1962,” changed to “agreements to be signed in the future.” Article Three, Item Two: “paid in local currency” with the word “local” changed for “Mali.”

 

Embassy [of the People's Republic of China] in Mali

17 August 1962

 

The Chinese Embassy reports that Mali hopes that Chinese industrial experts will come to Mali.



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PRC FMA 108-00800-03. Obtained by Gregg Brazinsky and translated by Marian Rosenberg.

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