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Hong Kong Ivory: Standard Reply
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The Secretary of State has seen your submission of 6 March. He disagrees and would like a new, strengthened standard reply which should say:
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That Hong Kong is on schedule with its legislation;
That ivory is intercepted effectively;
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WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE
That we have already said that we will investigate any evidence of complicity by Hong Kong traders in illegal trading in ivory.
The Secretary of State would also like a written answer in the House of Commons once ExCo has passed the legislation on to LegCo: if I am not mistaken this has already happened so a written answer should be submitted urgently.
12 March 1990
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