DSR 11 (Revised Sept 85)
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10
UN CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971
1. I am sorry that we have not been able to offer an
earlier substantive reply to Gordon Mortimer's letter of
12 March about the extension to Hong Kong of the 1971 UN
Convention on Psychotropic Substances; the question of
the mechanism of extension to Hong Kong in the context of
the change of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997 has
raised a number of complex legal issues which remain
unresolved.
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2.
Department
Hong Kong will be writing separately in due course
about the need to declare Hong Hong a separate region for
the purposes of the '61 and '71 Conventions if autonamy
of administration in respect of their provisions is to be
maintained after 1997, and the mechanism for doing so.
Meanwhile, as requested, I enclose the following papers
/concerning