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4.
Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in 1987 and at the conference
which in December 1988 adopted the United Nations
Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances.
(b) to increase the international commitment to reducing
demand for drugs.
(c) to strengthen the effectiveness of demand reduction
policies through the exchange of experience and expertise
of individual governments and of non-governmental
organisations.
(d) to identify ways in which international drugs
co-operation can most effecitvely be targetted to reduce
the demand for cocaine and to combat its production and
trafficking.
Each participating government will of course wish
to decide which of its Ministers should attend the
Conference. But we wish to ensure that the formal
invitation is addressed to the most appropriate
Minister, who may vary between Ministers of Justice, the
Interior, Health, Foreign Affairs or others depending on which
Ministry has lead responsibility for government drugs policy
and on the particular objectives which each Government has for
the Conference. Grateful therefore if you would send a
diplomatic note to government(s) to which you are accredited,
informing them of the details in paragraphs 1 to 3 above and asking to which Minister the Home Secretary's invitation
should be addressed, and report their response by telegram.
5. For Dependent Territories Participants from the Dependent
Territories will form part of the UK delegation. For reasons of
space, each Dependent Territory will be limited to one
representative only.
HURD