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By Fax 43

GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD

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Mr. Robert Footman

Hong Kong Department

Foreign & commonwealth Office,

London SW1A ZAH

England

Dear Robbert

4th February 1989

Mythani

Import of Killer Whale from Japan

pl. deal.

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Further to my earlier fax today (No. 232), you may wish to know that the Governor has instructed that we should establish from MAFF

(a)

(b)

whether the UK or other EC countries would not import a killer whale even though it was already in captivity!

and

whether they would commenL In particular on the point that the capture or the 4 whales was "undertaken with the full knowledge and approval from the IWC after careful census study" - this is *B in my fax No. 22% of 31 January.

Regeven. Tam

(A.R. Clack!

f Secretary for Economic Services

ARC/CP

TATA!

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