CODE 18-77
Mr Stone HKD
Reference
Reg
338
for the Gle
ale.
CONFIDENTIAL
HKCISI
HONG KONG AND THE IVORY TRADE: LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO MR PATTEN
Please refer to your minute to Mr Beetham, who is not in the office today.
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2. MAED have the following suggested amendments:
Covering Minute to PS
delete para 3 and add extra sentence to para 2 as follows
MAED have checked the accuracy of the references to CITES'.
MAED'S (The presentation of Hong Kong's case is for HKD.
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role, in view of our known and accepted opposition to the idea of a reservation, is to ensure that the facts in respect of CITES are accurately stated).
page 4 of draft letter
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No consuming country which is also a Party to CITES has yet entered a reservation, but if one did presumably Hong Kong
Para 2, 3rd sentence, should would wish to export to it. therefore be amended to read (The principal legal outlets open to them are countries who are not Parties to CITES, which would include South Korea, Brunei, certain Middle Eastern countries and Taiwan, or any consumer country which is a Party and which has entered a reservation within the 90 days allowed). There would of course be no question of any extension to the ban beyond the six month period; thereafter the ban would be total."
2. As stated, the presentation of the case is HKD's responsibility, but we would advise that the last sentence of the first para on page 3 of the draft letter, which begins 'It would be inequitable is guaranteed to antagonise the DOE.
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4 December 1989
CONFIDENTIAL
Julian Evans
MAED
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