Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 54 Part 2.djvu/656

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54 STAT.] TURKEY-RECIPROCAL TRADE-APR. 1 , 1939 ARTICLE 15 Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to affect the rights and obligations arising out of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between the United States of America and the Turkish Republic, signed at Ankara on October 1, 1929. ARTICLE 16 Specified treaty not affected. 46 Stat. 2743. The present Agreement shall be proclaimed by the President of prAeimeentt bet the United States of America and shall be ratified by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The present Agreement shall come provisionally into force on May Datesof cominginto 5, 1939. The Agreement shall come definitively into force on the day on which the Government of the United States of America shall have communicated officially to the Government of the Turkish Republic the proclamation of the President of the United States of America and the Government of the Turkish Republic on its part shall have informed the Government of the United States of America of the ratification of the Agreement by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The Agreement shall remain in force, subject to the provisions of Duration. Articles 1, 5, 13 and 14, until it is terminated in accordance with the provisions set forth below. The Government of either country may terminate this Agreement on December 31, 1939, December 31, 1940 or December 31, 1941, in each case on two months' written notice. After December 31, 1941, the Agreement, if not previously terminated, shall continue in force subject to the provisions of Articles 1, 5, 13 and 14 until six months from the day on which the Government of either country shall have given notice to the other Government of its intention to terminate the Agreement. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed Signatures. this Agreement and have affixed their seals hereto. Done in duplicate, in the English and Turkish languages, both authentic, at the City of Ankara, this 1' day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine. JOHN V. A. MACMURRAY 9. SARACOGLU ROBERT F. KELLEY N MENEMENCIOGLU 1877 [SEAL] [SEAL]