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BBC-Albright criticises Burma's dru



Subject: BBC-Albright criticises Burma's drug record

Wednesday, March 3, 1999 Published at 06:47 GMT
World: Asia-Pacific

Albright criticises Burma's drug record

The American Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, continuing a visit to
Thailand, has criticised the Burmese military government for its failure to
stop the cultivation of drugs.

She contrasted the success of Thailand's crop substitution programme with
that of Burma, during a visit to a hill village in the Golden Triangle drug
growing region on the borders of Thailand, Burma and Laos.

Mrs Albright will meet Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai in Bangkok tomorrow.

>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service