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27 December 1990
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PC Edwards Esq C5 Division Home Office
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Dear Peter,
- 1990
London SWIA 2AH
Telephone: 071- 270 2494
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MEETING OF SENIOR OFFICIALS ON DRUG ABUSE ISSUES IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC : TOKYO 13-15 FEBRUARY 1991”
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1. We briefly discussed this meeting. I now enclose a copy of the Japanese Embassy's formal invitation.
As you will see, we are asked to nominate two or three officials, including one at senior level, to attend. The meeting is sponsored by the Japanese Government and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), which is a UN regional economic body.
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The Japanese agenda is wide-ranging. It is also abysmally short on detail. We are asking our Embassy in Tokyo to find out at greater length what the Japanese have in mind. But, judging by what we have, it looks as though NDIU will have an interest in item 1, the ODA in item 2, the Department of Health in item 3 and the Home Office and the FCO in virtually all of it. That said, the meeting is likely to focus more on Eastern and South East Asian drugs problems than on those of South West Asia or the Pacific. Britain's direct interest in the proceedings is likely only to be partial.
3.
When we know more, we shall have to formulate objectives. As of now, the FCO (subject to comments from other departments within this house) will particularly wish to encourage the Japanese to continue and strengthen their support for multilateral and bilateral drugs-related assistance programmes; they have the largest aid programme in the world. We shall wish to encourage them to use their undoubted political clout to ensure their neighbours play their part in tackling regional drugs problems. We would also wish to see that the meeting gives due weight to South West Asian problems. And then there is the broader, blander objective of encouraging greater international drugs co-operation, including the effective implementation of Un and regional drugs conventions.
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I am sure that the UK should be represented at the meeting. But at this stage, without knowing more about it, we cannot judge the appropriate level or lead. We are also asking our Embassy in Tokyo to let us know how our Western
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