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Indonesia cattle permits delay live export vessels from Indonesia to China

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Australian and Indonesian authorities have been scrambling to regulate and control illegal live export cattle exports to China, after hundreds of people were feared drowned when boats caught on the coast of the Marshall Islands attempted to return to Indonesia with their livestock.

Around 1,000 people were feared stranded when a group of barges that was believed to be from Indonesia arrived off the Indonesian coast early on Monday after missing a rescue attempt.

That meant it was the first Australian-Chinese fishing boats that attempted to visit the Marshall Islands for an hour or two and had to be abandoned by the time authorities received a call to allow emergency crews to land the boats on the island.

“These boats are here on an emergency basis,” Prime Minister Tony Abbott said today.

“These boats are here to do work with the locals, not to disturb them.”

Sorry, this video has expired Video: Australians warn Australian and Chinese boats on the Marshall Islands (7pm TV News TAS)

Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said this was due to the difficulty of the conditions that they had to adapt to.

“The people in these boats are not Chinese fishermen —우리카지노 these people have lived here a long time,” said DFT chief executive, Paul Hanlon.

“I 우리카지노don’t think they have made any attempt to use our facilities and facilities which are not safe for them.”

In total, more than 10 crew members are believed to have been killed since arriving in the Marshall Islands earlier this month.

This includes four Australians, four Chinese and one Indian.

Topics: maritime, government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, law-crime-and-justice, australia, ind우리카지노onesia, china

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