CODE 18-77
AWO Ltd.
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Mr Plant
Legal Advisers
HKC151
Reference....
89
IVORY TRADE : STOPPING (AND SEARCHING) OF SHIPS
SEAR
1. I attach a copy of an extract from the Lords Hansard Juki in column 940 of which you will see that Lord Glenarthur undertook to look into a question from Lord Stanley of Alderley about whether HM ships may stop vessels which are believed to be carrying "illegal" ivory. I should be grateful for your advice on the legal aspects of this question, for incorporation into a prospective draft reply from Lord Glenarthur.
Grateful your response in time for us to put a draft into Lord Glenarthur's box on 15 June.
2.
Don's M
,
DJ Barton
Maritime, Aviation and Environment Department
WH MZ 12
270 2638
12 June 1989
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Dept
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Mr Holroy
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