TNAG-0561-FCO40-656-Review-of-narcotics-problem-in-Hong-Kong-1975 — Page 160

布政司署

香港下亞畢道

SECRET

VSD

No.52

COLONIAL SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD

HONG KONG

12 MAY 1975

本署檔號 OUR REF.:

NS 98/76/98C

5 May, 1975

* YOUr Ref.:

NICK 191

DK Timms Esq

MIL. WITTON

C.S. 41A

Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Department F CO

2

ben band

ALA

30..

UN NARCOTICS CONFERENCE

لاين

17

19/5

sopy this letter

and 2 echters under

hi

reference to Mr. Train if the Home Office

then

Thank you for your letter of 11 April (not to

all) in reply to mine of 24 March.

2.

рованах

As

We have had a rethink in the light of the latest circumstances in the region and have come to the conclusion that we should not jump at the opportunity to hold an Operational Heads' conference in Hong Kong. you say, there could be a lot of complications in such a conference. We will have anyway to give new thought to our immigration regulations, although we are not necessarily against the entry of communists qua communists, but only against those communists who may be Russian- orientated.

3.

In order to get out of the verbal agreements reached at the last Operational Heads' conference, we were wondering whether it might be possible to encourage some other participant e.g. Malaysians to offer to act as hosts instead. But perhaps this can be left for discussion when Law and Lee are in London for the Tripartite talks in June (our tel. no. 425 of 2 May).

You

ches

(C D S Drace-Francis)

12/5

CC UND

کره

SEAD

FCO

J P Law Esq BANGKOK

MFH Scrase-Dickins Esq VIENTIANE

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