UCLASSIFIED
HKD 3851
RECEIVEL REGISTRY
3 0 OCT 1987
Mr Arkwright HKD
OFFICER
FA
Reference......
NCD 253/11
88
EXTENSION TO
20
UN CONVENTION ON ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFICKING: HONG KONG
1.
2.
Your minute of 19 August refers.
NCAD's main concern, from the anti-narcotics point of view, is that the new convention should be capable of ratification by as many Governments as possible and capable of extension to the Dependent Territories.
3. We will be preparing briefing material for the Home Office on the draft preamble, implementation measures and final clauses of the new convention (including the question of territorial application) in due course. But the mechanism for extending the convention to Hong Kong in the context of the change of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997 is a separate issue which would appear to be more for your department. We would therefore be happy for you to correspond direct with the Home Office on this, copying to us for information purposes only.
No doubt you will wish to try to marry up Mr Fifoot's advice on the extension to Hong Kong of the new convention with his minute of 5 August (copy attached for ease of reference) on the extension to Hong Kong of the '71 Convention on Psychotropic Substances: I have to admit that the advice still leaves me somewhat in the dark on the outstanding question of whether we need to declare Hong Kong a separate region for the purposes of the '61, '71 and the new convention if they are to retain autonomy of administration in respect of the provisions of the Convention after 1997. is also not clear to me whether, if we decide so to declare Hong Kong to the UN, we need to consult the Chinese first. Since I assume this is a subject of on-going discussions with your legal adviser, may we leave it to your department to reply to this aspect of Mr Mortimer's letter to Mr Poston of 12 March 1987, still unanswered? If you agree, we will issue the
attached draft which covers the other issues raised in that letter.
3 September 1987
从 Job
E C Robson (Miss)
Narcotics Control & AIDS Department K154
270 2494
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