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Michael who said:
>Not
intending to dispute your assertion, I would be interested in having you expand
on the
>reasons for the following statements by you that the INRENA agreements are illegal under CITES >and are not legally enforceable: >"If what Jerry stated is true, and if it was indeed INRENA who made him sign that document, >then INRENA is dead wrong!!!!! This is against CITES rules!!!! INRENA should be severely >reprimanded by CITES." Michael I have
always believed that every country must have absolute jurisdiction over its
Natural Resources. I have expressed this on forums and also to the head
of INRENA.
When INRENA does not wish to give permission to take Pk's out of the
country, that is
their prerogative. I fully agree with it.
If INRENA gives Peruvian citizens permission to purchase legal Pk
flasks, on condition
that they sign a document promising they will not sell the seedlings for
two years , that is Peru's
business too.
However, when INRENA allows export of Pk flask, allows Pk flasks to cross
international
borders, they have no jurisdiction over what happens to them after they
have left Peru.
The only authority that would have such jurisdiction is
CITES.......and CITES has made
it abundantly clear that flasked App I seedlings "are not subject to the
provisions of the Convention"
The two year no
selling contract Jerry, a US citizen signed is ridiculous, as Jerry says ,
and it does
nothing for
conservation of the species. ( I would have signed it too and played
their game for the
sake of
being
allowed to take Pk flasks out of Peru)
In my
humble opinion, there is only one reason why INRENA is
doing
this and that is to extend the
sales of Pk
flasks by Manuel Arias Silva, who signed his company over to his son
Manolo.
As`far as it being against CITES rules: When INRENA
tries to dictate what happens to exported
orchids, be they plants or flasks, orchids now
outside Peru borders, they tread on CITES
territory.
INRENA has no business doing so and
CITES should blast them for it.
As far as fully understanding how government and
citizens "cooperate" in Peru , as Manolo calls
it in an e-mail to a friend of mine who
contacted him, you have to spend some time
there and
see it first hand to
believe it. I have seen it, and I believe it!!
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