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HKK 19/3

CONFIDENTIAL

Departmental Series

Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Department

D.S. 1/73

INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE NARCOTICS TRADE AS THEY

AFFECT HONG KONG

(The Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs)

SUMMARY

1. The historical background to the drugs problem in Hong Kong. (Paragraph 2).

2. The nature of current drugs activities in the Colony and measures being taken to control them. (Paragraphs 3 & 4).

3.

The source of the drugs imported into Hong Kong and the need for international action to cut off the supply. (Paragraphs 5 & 6).

4. There is no evidence of Chinese involvement in the drugs traffic. (Paragraph 7).

5. Two main recommendations for action in the international field: approaches to the three governments principally concerned in South-East Asia; and the further involvement of Hong Kong officials in international discussion and activity. (Paragraphs 8 to 10)

6. The action proposed will not be easy, but something must be done to ease Hong Kong's drug problems.

Hong Kong 19 February 1973

Sir,

1.

With my letter to Sir Duncan Watson of 22 January I enclosed two long and detailed papers on the international aspects of the drug problem as it affects Hong Kong. The object of this despatch is to cover the same ground

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