Anti-drugs team from China in Rango

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Subject: Anti-drugs team from China in Rangoon for cooperation talks


	ANTI-DRUGS TEAM FROM CHINA IN RANGOON FOR COOPERATION TALKS
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	     Sunday 13 July, 1997 (10:59pm AEST)


          A six-member team of officials from China is in Rangoon for
          talks with their Burmese counterparts on the control of illegal
          drugs.

          Burma's official media said the visiting delegation was being
          led China's vice-minister of public security, Bai Jingfu.

          The one-week visit comes shortly after Burma and China,
          together with four other regional countries, met in Bangkok
          under the auspices of the United Nations to discuss
          cooperation on drugs control. 

          Much of the world's opium and heroin is produced in Burma
          and increasingly trafficked out of the country via southern
          China.

	[13 July, 1997, ABC News].

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