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## Cable Address: AGFISH HONG KONG

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25 September 1989

Dear Mr. Stone,

I intended to write darlier but I was in the event not able to, since I have just returned to Hong Kong after paying a series of overseas visits, the last being to attend a conference in Japan.

I must thank you and your colleagues for affording the time to see me and for the useful discussion that we had at London. It has enhanced our mutual understanding and I hope that the problems of the conservation of the African elephant and the trade of ivory and the people affected could be solved satisfactorily at the coming CITES Conference.

I sincerely hope that you will support the draft resolution to allow the continued trade of the existing legally acquired ivory in the coming CITES Conference of Parties which, I understand, will be presented vide paper DOC 7.43.2 issued by the CITES Secretariat.

Thank you once again and with best regards,

sincerel

(Lawrence H.Y. Lee)

Director of Agriculture and Fisheries

Mr. Michael Stone

Hong Kong Department

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Whitehall

King Charles Street

London SW1

England

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