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OP Date22/6/89

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

For WRITTEN ANSWER on

26/6/89

Head of

PA 220/5

HKD

Please submit :-

a draft Answer & background to Parliamentary Unit

132

SERIAL NO; 2055

TEXT OF QUESTION :-

to P/S

PARTY

LORD GLENARTHUR

(Minister)

for approval by

NOON 26 JUN 1989

REPLY (s)

PQSRJ

copy to

Private Secretary

PS/ MR. EGGAR

(Minister:

Paritamentary Clerk

before

NOON 23/6/89

MR DAVID STEEL (TWEEDALE, ETTRICK AND LAUDERDALE) To ask the Secretary of State/HMG;

pursuant to his reply to the hon Member for Bosworth, Official Report, 7th June, col 138, what information he has on the Hong Kong Government's urgent review of its position on trading in ivory; and if he will make a statement.

for answer by

MR. EGGAR

(Minister)

ANSWER:

The Hong Kong Government announced on 9 June their

support for a ban on trade in new ivory. Pending the

outcome of the meeting of the Convention on International

Trade in Endangered Species in October 1989 they have

suspended the issue of licences for imports of raw

ivory from all sources.

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