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By Fax 43
GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
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Mr. Robert Footman
Hong Kong Department
Foreign & commonwealth Office,
London SW1A ZAH
England
Dear Robbert
4th February 1989
Mythani
Import of Killer Whale from Japan
pl. deal.
18/2
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Further to my earlier fax today (No. 232), you may wish to know that the Governor has instructed that we should establish from MAFF
(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 commenL In particular on the point that the capture or 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. 22% of 31 January.
Regeven. Tam
(A.R. Clack!
f Secretary for Economic Services
ARC/CP
TATA!
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