International Cooperation

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1 International Cooperation In 2007, NNCC, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture, etc., continued to strengthen alternative development cooperation with Myanmar, the Lao PDR and other countries, actively strengthened the intelligence exchange 1 / 9

2 and law enforcement cooperation with Pakistan, Afghanistan and other relevant countries, consolidated and enhanced the cooperation with United Nations and other countries. International drug control cooperation achieved positive results. Taking alternative development cooperation with foreign countries as priority, solving earnestly the drug problems of "Golden Triangle" According to the unified deployment of the State Council, the Office of NNCC coordinated actively the Ministry of Commerce and the relevant agencies of Yunnan Province, to conduct large-scale opium poppy alternative development in the northern parts of Myanmar and the Lao PDR. On August 31st, the Opium Poppy Alternative Development Leading Group of the State Council held a meeting in Kunming City of Yunnan Province, confirmed the principles of building piloting projects in the northern parts of Myanmar and the Lao PDR. On November 20th, China and Myanmar signed a bilateral action plan on alternative development cooperation. Yunnan Province arranged its border areas to establish, through cooperation with foreign counterparts, piloting projects in the northern parts of Myanmar and the Lao PDR. On March 16th, the Office of NNCC and the CCDAC of Myanmar signed an agreement on jointly establishing a konjak cultivation piloting project in Kengtung area of northern Myanmar. In order to help the local ex-poppy farmers survive food shortage, China planned to provide another tons of rice for the traditional opium poppy eradication areas in northern Myanmar. By the end of 2007, there had been 135 enterprises that conducted alternative development at the other side of the border. These enterprises had added 169 million yuan of investment and thousand mu (lha.=15mu) of substitutive crops in According to the statistics of the joint survey between NNCC and CCDAC, the opium cultivation area in northern Myanmar was 279 thousand mu, record low since 30 years ago. 2 / 9

3 Mr. Chen Cunyi, Deputy Secretary General of NNCC and Deputy Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau of MPS, accompanied by his Myanmar counterparts, has a field survey on opium poppy cultivation in Northern Myanmar In pursuant to relevant MOI signed between China and Myanmar, the Office of NNCC continued to entrust the Remote Sense Institute of China Science Academy to conduct remote sense survey on the opium cultivation in Northern Myanmar, the survey measures were enhanced and the accuracy rate of the survey was improved, and the survey impact became more obvious. In order to verify the survey images, the Office of NNCC, together with CCDAC of Myanmar, sent joint task forces to Northern Myanmar to conduct field survey. Between the winter of 2006 and the spring of 2007, the survey area in Northern Myanmar was 20.1 square kilometers, a number of suspected coordinates were informed to Myanmar side, which played an importance role in the eradication of illicit opium poppy in Northern Myanmar. Mr. Yang Fengrui attends the delivery ceremony of Udomxay Drug Treatment Center in Lao PDR NNCC continued to strengthen the alternative development cooperation with the Lao PDR. In July 2007, Mr. Yang Fengrui, Permanent Deputy Secretary General of NNCC and the Chinese Delegation were invited to attend the annual bilateral drug control cooperation meeting held in Udomxay Province, Lao PDR, Mr. Yang Fengrui presented himself in the opening ceremony of 3 / 9

4 the Udomxay Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center donated by the Chinese Government, inspected a rubber cultivation project implemented by a Chinese enterprise. In 2007, the border areas of China had conducted 75 meetings or border talks with neighboring areas of Myanmar and the Lao PDR, launched 27 joint drug law enforcement operations, captured 283 drug suspects, seized 6443 kilograms of illicit drugs and kilograms of precursor chemicals. Convening successfully the Seventh Ministerial Meeting of Signatory Parties to the 1993 Great Mekong Sub-region MOU on Drug Control Cooperation, participating actively in activities of ACCORD In May 2007, the Seventh Ministerial Meeting of Signatory Parties to the 1993 Great Mekong Subregion MOU on Drug Control Cooperation was held in Beijing, it is the second time for the MOU Ministerial Meeting to be held in Beijing since 12 years ago the first MOU Ministerial Meeting was convened in this city. Mr. Zhou Yongkang, State Councilor and Commissioner of NNCC, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a welcome speech. The Ministerial Meeting adopted the "2007 MOU Beijing Declaration" and the updated "Sub-regional Action Plan", laid a future plan for the international drug control cooperation in this region. For 12 years, the MOU mechanism had played an active role in abating opium poppy cultivation, reducing drug harms, updating drug control outlooks and enhancing drug enforcement capabilities in this region. The mechanism was regarded as the model of sub-regional drug control cooperation. In 2007, NNCC participated actively in the meetings and activities of ASEAN and China 4 / 9

5 Cooperative Operation in Response to Dangerous Drugs (ACCORD) and ASEAN Plus China, Japan and Korea Senior Official Meeting on Transnational Crimes (SOMTC + 3) Mechanism. In November, the Office of NNCC send a delegation to attend the 31st Meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (HONLEA) and the task force meeting of ACCORD joint action against ATS crimes. Supported by these mechanisms and platforms, the drug control cooperation between China and ASEAN Countries made new and significant achievements. In June 2007, under the coordination of the Office of NNCC, the narcotics control agencies of Fujian Province took joint actions with the Philippine police and successfully cracked the "Cai Aishan Mega Transnational Drug Manufacture and Trafficking Case", 8 suspects were captured, a large-scale drug clan lab and two drug warehouses were destroyed, 180 kilograms of methamphetamine and almost 10 tons of precursor chemicals were seized. The successful uncovering of this case exerted wide influence in the international community and promoted the drug control cooperation between China and ASEAN countries into a new level. China-Thailand Drug Control Cooperation Meeting held in Xiamen of Fujian Province 5 / 9

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9 Mr. Costa, An ED Guojun, of UNODC Deputy during Director CND General meeting of Narcotics Control Bureau of MPS, meets with Mr. Training drug control officers of DPRK Training drug control officers of Myanmar and Lao PDR 9 / 9