TNAG-1955-FCO40-2784-Trade-of-rare-and-endangered-species-in-Hong-Kong-1989 — Page 172

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TELEVISION MAGAZINE PROGRAMME : "UK TODAY"

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Ivory)

The magazine programme is produced monthly by the COI for FCO.

Each segment, there are five of three minutes, is selected and approved by ID afterwhich a treatment is produced. This treatment is again approved in ID and/or geographical depts or other interested Whitehall Ministry which may have an interest.

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COI have discussed the "Banning of the Ivory Trade" with

Their approach to DOE

me and I have approved it in principle.

is preliminary and by way of reasearch before the treatment is drafted. At the moment there is no guarantee that the item will be included in the magazine or made for that matter.

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Having said that, we consider the concept good and if·· Iord Caithness agrees to give an interview much will be added

to our efforts to put over another aspect of Britains concern for conservation and environmental issues.

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You will be passed a copy of the treatment for comment in due course.

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Лиши Мате

Michael Hone

21 June 1989

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Since drafting the proposed treatment has been faxed to me. A copy is enclosed. I shall be discussing it with the COI during the forenoon of 23 June.

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