File No. 6663–1.
Minister Russell to the Secretary of
State.
American Legation,
Caracas, May 6,
1907.
No. 191.]Sir: I have the honor to inclose you
herewith a clipping from the Official Gazette, with translation,
giving the correspondence to and from the foreign office in regard
to the recognition by Venezuela of an envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of the Republic of Nicaragua.
Mr. Simon Planas Suarez, a Venezuelan, who has just been recognized
by Venezuela as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of
Nicaragua, has been for several years, since December 1, 1904, the
accredited diplomatic representative of that Republic with the rank
of chargé d’affaires.
I would like an expression of opinion from the department as to this
novel status of Nicaragua’s representative, who has placed himself
apart from the other members of the diplomatic corps by waiving all
his diplomatic immunities and privileges under international
law.
I am, etc.,
[Inclosure
1.—Translation.]
Minister Suarez to the Venezuelan
Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Legation of Nicaragua in Venezuela,
Caracas, April 16, 1907.
No. 35.]Mr. Minister: Referring to the
conversation I had with your excellency this morning, and in
view of the fact that I will soon have to treat with your
excellency several important questions arising from the present
war between Nicaragua and several other Republics of Central
America, trusting in the signal goodness of your excellency, I
beg you to forward to His Excellency Gen. Cipriano Castro,
Constitutional President of the United States of Venezuela, the
letters of credence by which His Excellency Gen. J. Santos
Zelaya, Constitutional President of the Republic of Nicaragua,
has seen fit to accredit me near the illustrious and liberal
Government of your excellency in the capacity of envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary.
The constant desire of the people and Government of Nicaragua to
strengthen even more their fraternal relations with the people
and Government of Venezuela, and to make more solid their
patriotic ideals, sentiments with which I myself am perfectly in
accord, lead me to hope that in the discharge of my new mission
I shall merit the confidence of the illustrious President of
Venezuela, and that of his worthy collaborators, and thus
succeed in successfully fulfilling, with such valuable
cooperation, the high mission that has been confided to me.
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In the name of the President of Nicaragua, in that of his
Government, and in my own name, I earnestly beg your excellency
to be so kind as to express to the President of Venezuela my
sincere desires for the complete reestablishment of his
important and precious health, and the no less fervent desires
for the peace, grandeur, and progress of the United States of
Venezuela.
Will your excellency please accept, together with my
acknowledgment, my wishes for your personal happiness and the
homage of my highest consideration.
(Signed)
Simon Planas
Suarez.
[Inclosure
2.—Translation.]
The Venezuelan Minister
for Foreign Affairs to Minister Suarez.
United States of Venezuela,
Ministry for
Foreign Affairs,
Caracas, May 1, 1907.
Mr. Minister: I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s polite note of the
16th of last April, inclosing, for delivery to Gen. Cipriano
Castro, restorer of Venezuela and Constitutional President of
Venezuela, the letters of credence by which His Excellency Gen.
J. Santos Zelaya, Constitutional President of the Republic of
Nicaragua, has seen fit to accredit your excellency near my
Government as envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary.
Your excellency’s request having been complied with, I am greatly
pleased to inform you that Gen. Cipriano Castro has authorized
me to recognize your excellency as envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of the Republic of Nicaragua, as
accredited in the autograph letter from His Excellency Gen. J.
Santos Zelaya.
Gen. Cipriano Castro, restorer of Venezuela and Constitutional
President of the Republic, while acceding to the wishes of the
Government of Nicaragua in recognizing your excellency in this
new and higher diplomatic character, taking into consideration
the Venezuelan nationality of your excellency, makes, through
this ministry, the consequent reserve as regards your immunity
and extraterritoriality, with the declaration that in no manner
shall the ties which bind your excellency to the Republic of
Venezuela be considered as dissolved or lessened in everything
touching obedience to the constitution and laws as a Venezuelan
citizen.
The desires expressed by your excellency on the part of the
people and Government of Nicaragua for strengthening even more
their fraternal relations with Venezuela, an aspiration shared
by the Government of the Republic, in the well-grounded hope
that in the discharge of the high mission of your excellency
there will be frequent opportunity for their realization.
The Constitutional President of the Republic is extremely
grateful to the President of Nicaragua, to its Government, and
to your excellency for the sincere wishes in regard to his
health and for the prosperity of Venezuela, and returns them,
expressing at the same time his most fervent desires for the
complete consolidation of peace in the Republic of Nicaragua and
for the personal happiness of its Prime Magistrate.
I avail myself, etc.,
