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may wish to take advantage of UNFDAC resources to strengthen

preventive education programme and step up their

their

enforcement actions along the borders.

8.

Turning to international co-operation, Mr. Jiang

said that in June 1985 China ratified the two international

Substances).

conventions on drugs (i.e. the 1961 Single Convention on

Narcotic Drugs and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic

In the same year, the Director of the DDRC, Dr.

Cai Zhi-ji became a member of the International

Control Board, the most authoritative UN body in monitoring

the world's drug problem.

International Narcotics

9.

I then described Hong Kong's drug problem and the

efforts we were making to combat drug abuse. Apart from an

statement of our policy I briefly covered the

overall

following:

(i)

organisation of our Action Committee

Against Narcotics;

(ii)

our legal provisions;

(iii)

Central Registry of Drug Abuse and

number of drug abusers,

treatment

programmes, in particular methadone;