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I would welcome any comments you may have on the issues addressed by the drafts I attach, and confirmation of the compatibility of your legislation with the UN Convention and the Commonwealth Scheme. would expect that those of you who have introduced your own drug trafficking legislation will now want to add local legislation along the lines of Part VI of the CJA plus the International Cooperation Bill. Local legislation is our preference for all territories. But there may be some territories for when it will be easier to use the extension mechanisms provided.
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The Home office have agreed that the Instructions and draft Bill should be sent to you on a confidential basis to enable you to take stock of the state of your legislation, and ponder on the path ahead. I would be most grateful if after so doing you could let me know what steps you plan to take to update your own ability to provide modern _mutual- legal assistance.
5. As you may know UK Ministers attach particular importance to early ratification of the UN Convention. They would be delighted to be able to ratify the Convention by the time of the London Conference on Demand Reduction in the context of Cocaine scheduled for April 1990, and there is an outside chance that that may be possible. I hope that this early sight of these papers will help you to move forward quickly.
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