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to make the proposed reservation, the UK would be treated as not party to the Convention with respect to trade in the African elephant. We have consulted our Legal Advisers on this point.
Mr Edwards is confident that it would be perfectly possible for the UK to enter a reservation in respect of Hong Kong without the UK as a whole being regarded as not a party to the Convention. It
would not be a case of "all or nothing".
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