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The report showed that in addition to the Government's 26-point Forward Action Plan announced last year to beat drugs, the Government drew up another 42 initiatives based on recommendations by ACAN Special Action Group which had arisen from the first Summit.
"Of those 68 initiatives, we have completed 46, about two thirds of the total," the Governor said.
"We are on schedule and making progress on 11 and we are pressing ahead with another Il which are on-going commitments."
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Governor's closing remarks at the second Drugs Summit
Following is a transcript of the closing remarks by the Governor, the Rt Hon Christopher Patten, at the 2nd Summit on Drugs held today (Thursday):
I had better respond, at least on one of those points, in just a minute. We have had about 2.45 hours so maybe at the end of a long and wide-ranging debate I should try to summarise what we have discussed this afternoon and where we have got to.
I have certainly found this afternoon extremely useful. I hope others have found it useful as well. And I want to place on record how grateful I am, how grateful we all are to all those who have participated. We are grateful to all who have shared your knowledge and expertise with us, your knowledge and your experience, both from the table of panellists and from the floor.
Let me try to sum up and suggest where we might go after today. As I did before the last summit, I asked my officials again this year to work together to draw up a new Forward Action Plan setting out concrete actions which the Government will be taking in the year ahead. Some of these actions are in the pipeline, others are completely new initiatives. Some have obtained funding support through our budgetary process already and for others we hope to secure funding from other sources, such as the Beat Drugs Fund. Together they add up to a total package of measures costing some $30 million.
I will go over some of these measures in a moment. We will make available a full list to whoever wants one at the end of the meeting.