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Hong Kong Department

2 August 1990

PS/Mr Lennox-Boyd

Mr Burns

Mr Brenton, ESED

PS/Lord Caithness

HONG KONG IVORY

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Problem

1.

A letter from Mr Darling MP to the Secretary of State

enclosing a letter from his constituent Mr Brian Black about

Hong Kong ivory.

Recommendation

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ESED agree.

2. I submit a draft reply from Lord Caithness.

Kong Government have been consulted.

Background

3. On 17 January 1990, we entered a six month Reservation

on behalf of Hong Kong against the decision by the

Conference of Contracting Parties to the Convention on

International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to ban

international commercial trade in ivory. The purpose of

this Reservation was to enable Hong Kong ivory traders to

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