In Nairobi, UNEP has been discussed about reform to about UNEO, in 28th session of UNEP governing council/global ministerial environment forum. In there is CITES secretary general (a tall gentleman) also attended the forum, and then asked him about ivory trade, appendix 1. Q; You had many appearance of you in Santiago and Bangkok in CITES conference, sir. And ask you about business of ivory trade、my position is against of reopen of the trade, and against of my Japanese Gov. Position. Does ivory trade will reopen again, by your personal opinion? A; Those proposal will be all present us by the end of this month February. Talks of proposal are done by CITES conference and the trade will be reopen! Q; Will it be Japan or export only of a special country Japan again?! In October, last year, the ivory export/reopen agenda to export Japan went in a committee of Geneva and decision was “postponed”. In the later immediately, after this decision the big smuggling was found out in Osaka Japan. Japan is not excellent control nation especially. A; It will be the present conditions that smuggling is found out in every place side. Q Kenya and India object to an ivory international trade again. If ivory trade will be reopens, poaching in Kenya, has occurred in rampant occurrence. A, This (Kenya) do corruption politics so as to be hopeless. Does not it grow without poaching if it supervises by a country properly?! Then it will be reopened!
We asked you that reopen will be disasters for elephants, and we should fight them again.