THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BIRD PRESERVATION
rganised 1922 by Dr. T. Gilbert Pearson U.S.A.
President Emeritus: Jean Delacour (France and U.S.A.) President: Professor S. Dillon Ripley (U.S.A.) Vice-Presidents: Professor J. Dorst (France)
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Professor K. Curry-Lindahl
Secretary-General: Miss Phyllis Barclay-Smith, C.B.E. (Great Britain)
Secretaries: R. D. Chancellor (Great Britain)
Roland C. Clement (U.S.A.)
R. J. Dowsett (Zambia)
Dr. Won Pyong-Oh (Korea)
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The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, S.W.1.
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20 NOV 1974
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22nd November, 1974
Sir,
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I have the honour to submit to you the following Resolution which was unanimously adopted at the XVI World Conference of the International Council for Bird
Preservation, held in Canberra, Australia, 19-25 August 1974, with a request that the matter be taken up with the Hong Kong Government:
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The XVI World Conference of the International Council for Bird Preservation
URGES the Government of the United Kingdom on behalf of Hong Kong
a to take prompt and effective measures to reduce the volume
of the trade in wild birds;
(b) to stop entirely the trade in birds of prey, a group in danger;
(c) improve the conditions for birds being traded.
I also enclose for your information a copy of a letter we have written to His Excellency the Governor, containing other Resolutions applicable to Hong Kong.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Phyllis Bandoy. Smith
Phyllis Barclay-Smith
SECRETARY-GENERAL
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