Nr. I Notawisseling tussen de Nederlandse en de Amerikaanse Regering betreffende de ontwikkeling van speciale wapens
Excellency,
I have the honor to refer to the discussions which have recently taken place between representatives of our two Governments concerning the participation by your Government in a mutual program, in pursuance of the purposes and applicable provisions of the Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement, looking toward the development and furnishing of new and improved special weapons (other than nuclear weapons) for the defense of the North Atlantic area, by nations parties to the North Atlantic Treaty, including the United States.
The objective of the program is to strengthen further the defense of the North Atlantic area and thus to facilitate the effective participation of the parties to the Treaty in the United Nations system for collective security.
Your Government may now or in the future have under development a number of new and special items of military equipment. Certain of these projects may show such promise in the course of development that their early and successful completion would make available to NATO forces new and improved equipment which would greatly increase the ability of these forces to maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
To help achieve this end, my Government is prepared to contribute assistance for such of these projects as are considered to possess the greatest potential contribution to NATO defense.
The assistance so to be provided to your Government, under the authority of the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended, will be furnished in pursuance of the purposes and applicable provisions of the Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement between our two Governments dated January 27, 1950, as amended and supplemented, and under such other applicable agreements or arrangements as may be in force between our two Governments.
When any item of military equipment to the development of which the United States shall have made a contribution, is ready for production, it is understood that your Government will, subject to financing therefor being arranged, be willing to undertake its production within the Netherlands and supply it under reasonable and equitable terms and conditions for forces raised for defense of the North Atlantic area; and that if this is not feasible, your Government will facilitate the production of such item of military equipment in other NATO countries willing and able to produce it, by transferring to them, for the purposes of NATO defense, under reasonable and equitable terms and conditions, the technical information and rights essential to production, to the end that the item of military equipment will be available to strengthen the defenses of the North Atlantic area.
It is further understood that your Government will accord to the Government of the United States for use by the armed forces of the United States only, the right to produce in the United States, and to use any item included within this program to which the Government of the United States has contributed. To the extent that your Government owns or can cause to be transferred the rights and technical information essential to the production of the item without incurring liability to the owner, these rights and technical information shall be without cost. To the extent that your Government incurs any liability to the owner of such rights or technical information in making such rights available to the Government of the United States at its request, reimbursement will be made to your Government. So far as concerns rights and technical information not owned or controlled by the Government of the Netherlands your Government will use its best efforts to insure that they be made available to the Government of the United States at charges no greater than made to your Government for its own use. It is understood that any payments by the Government of the United States to your Government will involve no profit for your Government.
In the carrying out of this program, our two Governments, acting through their appropriate officials, will enter into detailed agreements involving specific projects, including appropriate arrangements for preserving security as to items resulting from the respective development projects, and arrangements, to the fullest extent possible under United States law, for safeguarding privately owned proprietary rights and technical information.
It is further understood that this program does not have any relation to weapons or weapons systems falling within the scope of the United States Atomic Energy Act of 1946
It is proposed that if these understandings meet with the approval of your Government, the present note and Your Excellency's note in reply shall be considered as constituting a confirmation of these arrangements between our two Governments.
Please accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration.
(Sd.) H. FREEMAN MATTHEWS
American Embassy, The Hague
June 4, 1954.
His Excellency
Dr. J. W. Beyen,
Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Plein 23,
The Hague.
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- Notawisseling tussen de Nederlandse en de Amerikaanse Regering betreffende de ontwikkeling van speciale wapens
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- 04-06-1954
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