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CONFIDENTIAL

FM HONG KONG

TO TELELETTER FCO

TELELETTER NFR

OF 10084OZ DECEMBER 87

INFO TELELETTER PEKING

CONFIDENTIAL

041027

HCD 385

5 JAN 1988

MDTTAN 3521

FROM : AGNES ALLCOCK, ACTING COMMISSIONER FOR NARCOTICS, HONG KONG FOLLOWING FOR : PAUL ARKWRIGHT, HKD

COPIES TO : CARTSON PIGOTT ESQ., PEKING

IT WAS NICE MEETING YOU WHEN YOU VISITED HONG KONG IN MID-NOVEMBER. I AM REPLYING TO YOUR LETTER OF 16 OCTOBER ON THE SUBJECT OF THE 1971 UN CONVENTION ENCLOSING MR. FIFOOT'S MINUTE.

2. I WOULD LIKE TO RESTATE OUR FOLLOWING OBJECTIVES IN RELATION TO THE 1971 CONVENTION

A) TO APPLY THE 1971 CONVENTION TO HONG KONG AS SOON AS POSSIBLE:

B) THE

UKG, WHEN EXTENDING THE CONVENTION TO HONG KONG SHOULD MAKE A DECLARATION UNDER ARTICLE 28 OF THE 1971 CONVENTION THAT HONG KONG BE TREATED AS A SEPARATE REGION FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE CONVENTION:

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3. AS WE INTEND TO HAVE THE INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS ARISING FROM A) AND B) ABOVE CONTINUED TO APPLY TO HONG KONG AFTER 1997, THE CHINESE SIDE WILL NEED TO BE CONSULTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AGREED GUIDELINES. AS YOU ARE AWARE JLG SUB-GROUP ON IRO WILL DISCUSS HONG KONG'S FUTURE PARTICIPATION IN THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1988. OUR CURRENT THINKING IS THAT WE WOULD PUT DOWN A MARKER IN THE SUB-GROUP PAPER ON UNCND TO THE EFFECT THAT WE ARE PLANNING TO HAVE THE CONVENTION APPLIED TO HONG KONG AND WE WILL BE CONSULTING THE CHINESE SEPARATELY UNDER THE AGREED GUIDELINES. WE SUGGEST THAT THE CHINESE SIDE BE CONSULTED AFTER THE PAPER HAS BEEN HANDLED OVER, PROBABLY IN MARCH 1988. MEANWHILE, WE LOOK FORWARD TO RECEIVING YOUR ADVICE ON THE MECHANISM FOR MAKING A DECLARATION UNDER ARTICLE 28.

4. IN OUR DISCUSSIONS IN VIENNA AND LONDON IN OCTOBER WE DID NOT

COVER THE 1971 CONVENTION BUT CENTRED AROUND ENSURING THAT THE

DRAFT CONVENTION ON ILLICIT TRAFFICKING SHOULD CONTAIN AN ARTICLE

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