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布政司署 禁毒處

香港金鐘道六十六號 金鐘道政府合署高座廿三樓

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(by airmail)

NARCOTICS DIVISION GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

QUEENSWAY GOVERNMENT OFFICES.

HIGH BLOCK, 23RD FLOOR,

66 QUEENSWAY,

HONG KONG

本處檔號 Our Ref.:

NCR 10/1/10 III

來函檔號 Your Ref.:

DDA/87 1/118/72

電話 Telephone: 5-295027

Mr. N.A. Nagler,

Drugs Branch,

Home Office,

Queen Anne's Gate,

London SW1H 9AT

England.

last

paper

HND 385

REGISTRY

22 JAN 1988

*FFICER

PA

faken

9 December 1987

Der Mr Nagler.

Draft Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs

and Psychotropic Substances

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I refer to the letter from Keith Moss dated November on the captioned subject enclosing

a copy of the U.N. Secretary General's note NAR/CL.17/1987 DND 421/15 of 30 October and information on the inter-governmental expert group on the draft convention.

We are а bit concerned that the need for a provision similar to Article 28 of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances was not reflected in the notes on the expert group's preliminary exchange of views on the preamble, implementation measures and final clauses of the Draft Convention. As we have stressed before, a formal recognition of the autonomy of Hong Kong's law enforcement agencies for the purposes of the draft Convention is of vital importance The lines suggested by Gareth Mulloy in his letter of 17 September remain what we hope to achieve ultimately and I repeat them below for ease of reference :

to us.

#

Any Party

may notify the Secretary-General that for the purposes of Articles [27] of the Convention, its territory is divided into two or more regions [areas subject to jurisdiction]

each [represented]

[administered] by

a

its

separate drugs law