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- Subject: Drug Hysteria rises in South Pacific
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- Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:21:12 GMT
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- From the "Christchurch Press" 17 November 1992
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- from AFP, Noumea
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- DRUG CRIME RISING IN PACIFIC
- Large-scale crime is growing in the South Pacific, the French High
- Commissioner in New Caledonia told an international seminar on drugs and money
- laundering yesterday.
- "The South Pacific is no longer a sanctuary," said Alain Christnacht. The
- region was becoming a crossroads for drugs and the money they generated.
- Representatives from the 15-nation South Pacific Forum,the United States,
- Interpol, and the United Nations were due to take part in the five-day
- conference.
- The seminar organised at the initiative of the French Interior Ministry and
- the French police, aims to set up co-operation between different groups to
- fight trafficking.
- Difficulties in controlling the regions borders called for a common strategy
- against crime,Mr Christnacht.
- The seminar was a sign of France's desire for closer ties between the South
- Pacific Forum and the region's French territories.
- The forum groups, Australia,New Zealand,Fiji,the Cook,Marshall and Solomon
- islands,Kiribati,Micronesia,Nauru,Niue,Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu,Vanuatu
- and Western Samoa.
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- Brandon Hutchison,University of Canterbury,Christchurch
- New Zealand
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