Burma and China in drugs campaign

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		CHINA, BURMA IN DRUGS CAMPAIGN TALKS
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          Burma's official narcotics fighter has flown to Beijing for
          drug talks, just two weeks after similar bilateral talks in
          Rangoon.

          The Xinhua newsagency says the secretary of the Burmese
          junta's central committee for drug abuse control, Soe Win,
          will hold meetings with senior Government officials in Beijing
          and will also travel to Nanjing.

          In mid-July, China's Deputy Minister for Public Security, Bai
          Jingfu, held talks with Mr Soe Win on co-ordinating law
          enforcement and supply reduction of heroin. 

          American anti-narcotics officials says Burma's northeastern
          Shan State is the source of most of the world's heroin, which
          flows to international markets through neighbouring China,
          Laos and Thailand. 

	(ABC News, 31 July 97)

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