October 10, 1969

CULTURAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE UNITED MEXICAN STATES

Note: The Agreement entered into force, January 29, 1973.

Reference: This Agreement is also published in VIII DFA TS No. 2, p. 5.

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES and the GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED MEXICAN STATES,

DESIROUS of maintaining and strengthening for their mutual benefit the friendly relations existing between both countries;

ANIMATED by the common desire to enhance and develop the cultural relations between them;

HAVE DECIDED to enter into a Cultural Agreement and for this purpose have named as their Plenipotentiaries:

The Government of the Republic of the Philippines: His Excellency, DR. CARLOS P. ROMULO, Secretary of Foreign Affairs; and

The Government of the United Mexican States: His Excellency, LIC, ANTONIO CARRILLO FLORES, Secretary of Foreign Relations;

WHO, after having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed on the following:

ARTICLE I

The High Contracting Parties shall agree to promote the cultural collaboration between the two countries on the basis of mutual respect to their sovereignty, in conformity to the laws and regulations in force in each country, having in mind the interests of their respective peoples.

ARTICLE II

The High Contracting Parties shall contribute to an interchange on the experience and progress achieved in the fields of humanities, technology and education, and shall encourage the mutual grant of the necessary facilities to ensure a better knowledge and comprehension of their respective cultures.

ARTICLE III

The High Contracting Parties shall promote mutual assistance among the universities and other institutions of higher learning, research centers anaother cultural establishments of their respective countries, and shall foster, within their means, the interchange of: a) researchers, professors, students and artists; b) books and publications pertaining to education and culture; c) movie films and radio and television programs of a non-commercial nature.

ARTICLE IV

Each of the High Contracting Parties shall encourage the establishment, in the territory of the other, of groups dedicated to educational and cultural pursuits as well as of Philippine-Mexican friendship associations.

ARTICLE V

Depending on the resources of each country, the High Contracting Par­ties shall consider granting scholarships and other forms of assistance so that their nationals may carry out studies and researches in the fields of education and culture.

ARTICLE VI

Each of the High Contracting Parties shall pledge to assist in the promotion of the study and diffusion of the national language of the other, and encourage the establishment in their universities and other institutions of higher learning of chairs and course on the language, the literature, the art and history of the other.

ARTICLE VII

The High Contracting Parties shall consult with each other, when deemed necessary, to provide the details for the execution of the provisions of this Agreement.

ARTICLE VIII

The present Agreement shall be subject to ratification and the respective instruments shall be exchanged as soon as possible, in the City of Manila. This Agreement shall enter into force on the date of the exchange of the instruments of ratification.

ARTICLE IX

Either one of the High Contracting Parties may terminate the present Agreement, at any time, upon written notification to the other with six months notice.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Plenipotentiaries above-mentioned signed and sealed the present Agreement done in two copies, each one in the English and Spanish languages, both texts being equally authentic.

DONE in the City of Mexico, Federal District, this tenth day of October nineteen sixty nine.

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