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CALL ON PRESIDENT MOI BY THE MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND COUNTRYSIDE
1. MR TRIPPIER CALLED ON PRESIDENT MOI AT STATE HOUSE YESTERDAY.
2. MOI THANKED THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT FOR ITS GENEROUS AID IN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND IN FOREST AND ECOLOGICAL PROTECTION, ESPECIALLY IN THE MAU FOREST. THE PRIME MINISTER HAD INCREASED WORLD AWARENESS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND HAD TAKEN A MAJOR INITIATIVE OVER THE OZONE LAYER. SUCCESSIVE MEETINGS CULMINATING IN THE JUNE MEETING IN LONDON HAD GREATLY STRENGTHENED THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL.
3. MR TRIPPIER SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN IMPRESSED TO SEE THE CHANGE IN THE NATIONAL PARKS WROUGHT BY DR LEAKEY AND THE NEW KENYA WILDLIFE SERVICE. MOI SAID THE IMPROVEMENT HAD BEEN DRAMATIC AND THE TIDE HAD BEEN TURNED ON POACHING. LEAKEY WAS THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB.
4. MOI THANKED MR TRIPPIER FOR THE COPIES OF THE 'ENVIRONMENT IN TRUST' WHICH HAD BEEN DISTRIBUTED TO KENYAN SCHOOLS LAST YEAR. MR TRIPPIER SAID THAT ADDITIONAL LEAFLETS WERE BEING PRODUCED. THE INTENTION WAS TO REACH OUT TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHOSE INTEREST IN THE ENVIRONMENT WAS RISING FAST. HE PROMISED TO SEND SOME SAMPLES OF THE LEAFLETS TO THE PRESIDENT. MR TRIPPIER ALSO MADE TWO OFFERS:
1) A PLACE IN 1991 AT THE HADLEY CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTRE FOR AN EXPERT IN THE FIELD OF CLIMATE CHANGE,
2) TWO OR THREE AWARDS UNDER THE ODA BURSARIES PROGRAMME FOR TRAINING IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT.
MOI WELCOMED BOTH OFFERS.
5. MOI PRAISED THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT FOR ITS UNDERSTANDING OF AFRICA'S PROBLEMS. BRITAIN HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF A DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA ARISING FROM THE PERIOD OF COLONIAL RULE. MANY COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES IN AFRICA HAD BENEFITTED FROM THE INSTITUTIONAL STABILITY WHICH BRITAIN HAD HELPED TO BUILD. THIS CONTRASTED WITH THE PROTRACTED AGONY OF THE ONLY US PROTEGE IN AFRICA, LIBERIA.
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