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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1991

SIR DAVID SAID: "WE COMPLY WITH A FULL OF INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ON DRUG CONTROL

FINANCIAL

ACTION

RANGE OF AND WE ARE TASK FORCE ON MONEY

REQUIRENTS

AN

ACTIVE

LAUNDERING

MEMBER OF THE RECENTLY ESTABLISHED AND WHICH INVOLVES OVER 20 COUNTRIES.

"WE

ENACTED

THE

DRUG

TRAFFICKING

ORDINANCE IN 1989 AND TO ASSETS UNDER THIS LEGISLATION."

DATE HAVE

FROZEN

OF (RECOVERY

$200 MILLION

PROCEEDS)

WORTH OF

AT THE HEART OF THE DEPUTY TO THE GOVERNOR POINTED OUT THAT

THE

ΤΟ FOR OPPORTUNITY

CRIMINALS THE EVIL OF DRUG TRAFFICKING WAS MAKE HUGE PROFITS.

CLOSE ESTABLISHED "THE POLICE AND CUSTOMS HAVE

IN THEIR ANTI-DRUG OPERATIONS AGAINST THEIR OVERSEAS COUNTERPARTS INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATES.

LIAISON WITH

INVOLVED IN "NO LESS THAN 494 OFFICERS FROM BOTH SERVICES ARE

INCREASE OF 86 PER CENT THE SPECIALIST ANTI-NARCOTICS BUREAUX, AN OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS.

"THE TWO SPECIALIST BUREAUX ARE, OF COURSE, SUPPORTED BY CUSTOMS AND POLICE OFFICERS IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DRUGS.

OTHER

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"WE HAVE RECENTLY FORMALISED SUCH INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION BY

JURISDICTIONS, ENTERING INTO BILATERAL AGREEMENTS WITH NINE OVERSEAS HE ADDED.

THE

TURNING TO THE LOCAL SCENE, SIR DAVID SAID

AND PROBLEM MULTI-FACETED CONTAINING THIS PROBLEM COMPARED

CITY.

DRUG ABUSE WAS A HONG PROGRESS

KONG HAD MADE IN FAVOURABLY WITH ANY INTERNATIONAL

COMMITTED

ΤΟ PROVIDING

ALL POSSIBLE

HE SAID: "WE ARE FULLY RESOURCES TO SUPPORT OUR ANTI-DRUG EFFORTS.

"AS PART OF THAT EFFORT WE WILL CONTINUE TO INFORM THE IN PARTICULAR THE YOUNG PEOPLE, OF THE DANGERS OF DRUG ABUSE.

PUBLIC,

OUR PUBLIC EDUCATION

AND

IN

"CLEARLY, COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN PUBLICITY CAMPAIGNS IS A KEY FACTOR IN ITS SUCCESS.

CHAIRMAN,

DR

GERALD

CHOA,

SAID

HIS

ACAN EARLIER, THE WELCOME SPEECH THAT THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY HELD A SPECIAL SESSION IN NEW YORK EARLY LAST YEAR, DEVOTED TO CONSIDERATION GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT COME TO GRIPS WITH THESE.

"THAT MEETING RESULTED

REAFFIRMED THE DETERMINATION OF THE

OF THE TRAFFICKING, AND WAYS TO

WHICH TO COMBAT THE THE AND IN

OF THE

IN

A

POLITICAL

DECLARATION,

SCOURGE OF DRUG

ABUSE

ADOPTION OF A GLOBAL PLAN

OF

AND ILLICIT

ACTION

WORLD COMMUNITY

DRUG TRAFFICKING,

AIMED AT

ERADICATION

PROBLEMS OVER THE NEXT DECADE.

THE VERY HIGHEST AND SUSTAINED

"THIS IS AN EXPRESSION OF POLITICAL WILL AT LEVEL AND REAFFIRMS THE WORLD'S COMMITMENT TO VIGOROUS ACTION AGAINST THIS MANIFOLD PROBLEM," DR CHOA ADDED.

/ATTENDED BY