here again the Advisory Committee proposes that the Governments concerned should be invited to enter into negotiations with regard to the moasures to be taken, and here again I would ask the 5th Committee to underline this proposal for practical action in a special resolution,
(Resol. 6).
I have tried here to give a short review of the main But it would be points of the two reports now before us. impossible in such a reving to touch upon all the valuable facts and all the interesting suggestions contained in these important documents.
I may mention only, in passing
by, tho suggestions contained in the second rowlution of the Advisory Committee (Doc. £.13., p.9) concerning Covernment monopolies of the trade in prepared opium, uniform maxima limits to the cmotats placed on sale and
the proposal for increased uniform prices in retail sale;
the propocal for penalties for infraction of the law;
the
the unification of the control of traffic in free ports;
austome statistics ate.
The Advisory Committee also asks the Council to request the Goverments for information with regard to a series of more or less technical questions, which it is hardly I therefore necessary to montion in this report.
think we night, together with our strong appreciation of the excellent work performed by the Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium, express also our approval, in a sum, of the other conclusious and recommendations in the tro
reports now before us.
(Resol. 7).
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