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Kong. Mr. Jiang said
that the appropriate authority
to
approach would be the Ministry of Agriculture and he undertook
to relay our request to them.
12.
Mrs. Allcock and I then called on the First
Secretary at the British Embassy, Roderic Wye who took us back
to his residence for lunch. I briefed him on the purpose of
our trip and the general impression I had after the morning
session with Jiang and Chen. I invited Wye to the banquet
which we hosted the next evening.
13.
In the afternoon we went to the Ministry of Public
Security and met Zhou Nian-shan, Deputy Director of CID of the
Public Security and Liu Zhi-min, Deputy Chief of Interpol,
China. Zhou re-asserted what we had been told in the morning
and confirmed that most drugs that came into China were not
for local consumption but were in transit to Hong Kong. This
was a reflection of the increase in cross-border land traffic
and in his view reflected greater risks in using the sea route
from Thailand. He cited a recent 10 kilos heroin seizure in
Hong Kong which had originated in China. An oblique reference.
was also made to problems caused by drugs originating from the
Golden Crescent (Pakistan), but this was not developed.
14.
Zhou then referred to the significance of the work
of Liu Zhi-min. He praised Liu's CID work and the good
co-operation he had with China's Customs
Customs and also
also with the