1989-02-04 11:10 ESB GS
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By Fax 33
GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
Mr. Robert Footman
Hong Kong Deparrment
Foreign & commonwealth office,
London SW1A ZAH
England
Dear Rabbert
4th February 1989
MyMani
Import of Killer Whale from Japan
pl. deal.
N
6/2
Further to my earlier fax today (No. 232), you may wish to know that the Governor has instructed that we should establish from MAPP :-
(a)
(b)
whether the UK or other EC countries would not import a killer whale even though it was already in captivity; and
whether they would comment in particular on the point that the capture of the 4 whales was "undertaken with the full knowledge and approval from the IWC after careful census study" - this is 'B' in my fax No. 222 of 31 January.
Regenan Tam
(A.R. Clark)
fr Secretary for Economic Services
ARC/cp
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