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Rn30/6 Miss Mandey C Leters to
Mr. Hory
W/28/16
issue
@ Pud, MKD
PS/Lord Glenarthur
راییده اریا
Thank you.
HONG KONG: IVORY SMUGGLING
FROM:
DATE:
forere Cour
CC:
A R Paul
Hong Kong Department
27 June 1989
PS/Mr Eggar
Mr McLaren
Mr Jeffrey, MAED
Ms Hodgson, EAÍD
Miss Carrington,
Wildlife Division,
DOE, Bristol
(PS/hard Glauter) 27/6
Problem
A,B,C 1.
Three letters from Mr John Patten MP, Mr David Knox MP and Mr
Stephen Day MP, enclosing letters from constituents calling on the
Government to take immediate action to impose a total ban on trade
in ivory in Hong Kong.
Recommendation
I recommend that Lord Glenarthur should reply on the lines of
the attached drafts. MAED concur.
2.
Background
3. The draft reply draws attention to the Hong Kong Government's
decision on 9 June to support a ban on trade in new ivory at the
October meeting of CITES and to their agreement to suspend the issue of all import licences for raw ivory, pending the CITES decision.
ARPane
A R Paul