TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTS SERIES 18-705

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL COOPERATION

Instrument Between the

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

and THAILAND

Extending the Agreement of August 6, 2013

Signed at Washington July 5, 2018

NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Pursuant to Public Law 89—497, approved July 8, 1966 (80 Stat. 271; 1 U.S.C. 113)—

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THAILAND

Scientific and Technological Cooperation

Instrument extending the agreement of August 6, 2013.

Signed at Washington July 5, 2018; Entered into force July 5, 2018.

INSTRUMENT OF EXTENSION OF THE AGREEMENT

RELATING TO SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL COOPERATION

BETWEEN

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

AND

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF THAILAND

The Government of the United States of America and the Government of the

Kingdom of Thailand,

Recognizing that the Agreement Relating to Scientific and Technical

Cooperation between the Government of the United States of America and

the Government of the Kingdom of Thailand signed at Bangkok on August

6, 2013 (hereinafter referred to as "the Agreement") will expire on August 6,

2018;

Referencing the outcome of the first STA Joint Committee Meeting held in

Bangkok on March 7 and 8, 2016, at which both sides expressed their

intention to undertake concrete collaboration on major areas including, but

not limited to, energy, health,

STEM education, water and biological diversity; and

Acting pursuant to paragraph 1 of Article XI of the Agreement,

Have agreed as follows :

Article I

The Agreement shall be extended for five years, effective from August 6r

2018.

Article II

This Extension shall enter into force on the date of the last signature.

DONE at Washington on July 5, 2018, in duplicate, in the English and Thai

languages, each text being equally authentic.

FOR Tiffi GOVERNMENT OF FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF

THE UNITED STATES OF THE KINGDOM OF THAILAND:

AMERICA:

Dr. Jonathan Margolis Assoc. Prof. Soranit Siltharm

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Permanent Secretary

Science, Space, and Health Ministry of Science and Technology

Bureau of Oceans and International

Environmental and Scientific Affairs

Department of State

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