Editorial Note
On January 15, 1952, representatives of the United States and Ecuador initiated negotiations at Quito for a bilateral military assistance agreement. Documents pertaining to the negotiations are in Department of State file 722.5 MSP for 1952. For text of the Agreement, signed at Quito, February 20, 1952, and entered into force on the same date, see Department of State Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS) No. 2560, or United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (UST), volume 3 (part 3), page 4162.
Concurrent with the negotiations for the military assistance agreement, representatives of the United States and Ecuador conducted negotiations for a related bilateral military plan. The “Plan of the Governments of Ecuador and the United States of America for Their Common Defense,” signed at Quito, February 20, 1952, and effective the same date, was transmitted to the Department of State under cover of despatch 666, from Quito, dated February 20, 1952, not printed (722.5 MSP/–2052).