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operations at the main airport, as well as personnel and funds for equipment installation and operation.
USIS has under consideration funding a drug abuse survey, similar to the PRIDE survey in the U.S.
Trafficking routes appear to be shifting. More than 50 percent of the heroin seized in Egypt is now from Lebanon, which seems to have replaced the countries of Southwest Asia as the immediate major source.
On July 4,
4, 16 kgs of heroin destined for the Egyptian market were seized in a vehicle arriving in Nuwieba from Aqaba, having transitted Jordan from Lebanon. Transit heroin destined for non-Egyptian markets appears to have shifted south, from Cairo toward Addis Ababa and Nairobi.
To-date, the estimated percentage of opium being eradicated has slackened. Whether this is due more to changes in cultivation patterns or a drop in eradication
eradication efforts is unclear. Serious manpower shortages do exist among enforcement agencies, and this may lie at the heart of the matter.
GREECE
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Summary: The only change from the March 1987 INCSR is the status of a new narcotics bill in the Greek Parliament. February 23, the Greek Parliament unanimously approved the first reading of a comprehensive bill to combat narcotics. This bill included enforcement, rehabilitation and drug education features. End Summary.
When the U.S. Embassy reported the Greek Parliament's approval of the first reading of the bill, officials were told the Parliament would complete its article-by-article review of the legislation "within a few weeks," and then pass it. As of July 10, the bill still remains under consideration in the Parliament. It has languished primarily because more pressing business has prevented it from being considered. In the past week, the Parliament (now in a restricted summer session until October) renewed its consideration of the bill. At this stage, however, there is no prediction regarding when the bill will be passed or in what form it will emerge.
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LEBANON
new developments have been reported from Lebanon since March. Preliminary reports of alleged destruction of
of opium poppy and other narcotics enforcement by the Syrian military in the Biqa' Valley proved misleading.
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