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R«&.8.8067/20.
INDIA OFRIOS,
BHI 18 HA LI
LONDON, B.E. 1.
18th October, 1920,
352
sir,
I as directed by the Secretary of State for India in Counsil to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, Mo. GRT.3850, de tod the 22nd september, 1920.
2.
The Bes 6 of Trade suggest that the system now proposed fr regulating the export from the United Kingdom of opium and sini- lar drugs night prove suitable for adoption by the Goverment of India, as regards exports from that country also, Hr. Nontagia
has no objection to transmitting this suggestion for the consider ation of the Government of India i on the receipt of their reply,
a further communiontion will be made.
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He taken, however, this opportunity to point out that this proposal goes much further then the Hague Convention sontemplates, xports from India are at present regulated according to the principles laid down by that Conventionj ported to countries which prohibit its entry and the export of rew opium is not ex- mah opium te countries which restrict import is limited strictly in negerdange with their requirements. exported; and there is no export trede in "mediciml opium"
No_"prepared opium" in A recede fan opfum, which is the oils article of gopsing. Wia alims of meterial importance to India, the G nvention does not impose upon importing sountries any obligation to limit their inports to the quantities required "aze hisively for legitima te sedisimm) or seientific purposes, nor does it štipla te exporting countries shall req ire, as a condition precedent to permitting expert, a certifiante, in the terms stated above, lieued under the authority of the Government of the country of sport. The Convention ma framed with the object of "bringing bout the gradual suppression of the abuse of opium"; rectioni mosaures embodied in the Convention, and considered
and the ufficient to attain that end, are much less draatio than those jam suggested for adoption by India,
stant Secretary,
Board of Trade.
that
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