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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-09-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:CITES (Convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora threatened with extinction)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040916.2.4-048"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-09-16-Speech-4-0492
lpv:speaker	lp:Neil Parish2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I would like to say to the Commission and Parliament that I fully support what CITES is doing. However, I question why the CITES conference is to be held in Bangkok. In Thailand there is still a lot of illegal trading in orang-utans, monkeys and leopards. So if the conference is to be held there, we need to question the Thai Government about this problem. I have seen examples of 50 illegally imported young orang-utans found hidden in cramped cages in private Thai zoos. In my constituency there is an organisation called Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre which wants to get a particular chimpanzee called Naree out of Thailand, but the Thai Government has not been helpful in this regard. If the conference is held in Thailand, it is very important for both this Parliament and the Commission to raise these issues with the Thai Government. We cannot allow this to happen. We have to highlight it. This is an opportunity to do so. While I welcome CITES and everything it is trying to do, the fact that the conference is to be held in Thailand will give us an opportunity to raise these issues with the Thai Government, so as to help stop such things happening. Otherwise this trade might seem to be acceptable because the CITES conference is being held there."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2004-09-15--2004-09-21)3 member; PECH (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2008-04-06)3 member; AGRI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2007-02-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Parish (PPE-DE )."1

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