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Tokyo - Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto has expressed his support for a request by Southern African countries to lift a ban on ivory trade. Namibian President Sam Nujoma told Mr Hashimoto on Monday that elephants were destroying forests and threatening homes in the region, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said. Mr Hashimoto said he would support a lifting of the ban pending the report of a panel that is studying the effects of such a step. Sapa-AP. Courtesy of the Pretoria News. |
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