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Subject: Re: The letter  from Office of the Narcotics Control Board of

Thailand
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It is very understandable that the NCB has to play with a double face
on this game. Again, this letter does not say anything the SPDC is free
from reproducing the drugs. 

Lets put that way, the NCB kills two birds with a stone.






--- OKKAR66129@xxxxxxx wrote:
> The letter  from Office of the Narcotics Control
> Board of Thailand to the 
> Editor of the Bangkok Post
> 
> 
> Excerpts  from
> 
> Information Sheet 
> No.B-1019 (I) 11th August, 1999
> Yangon, Myanmar
> 
> 
> Special Feature
> 
> This office is reproducing for your information the
> letter  from
> Office of the Narcotics Control Board of Thailand to
> the Editor of the
> Bangkok Post of complaint for the mispresentation
> carried in the said
> paper.
> 
> 
> No.1602/
> Office of the Narcotics Control Board 
> Din Daong Road, Phyathai District
> Bangkok 10400, Thailand
> Tel/Fax  2459354
> 
> August 5, 1999
> 
> Dear Editor of the Bangkok Post,
> 
> I wish to refer to the article entitled " Rangoon's
> troops active in
> drug trade", published in The Bangkok Post on 25th
> July 1999 quoting
> an anonymous high ranking officer of the  National
> Narcotics Operation
> Centre as stating that "The Burmese military has
> played an active role
> behind the UWSA's production of speed pills along
> our common border"
> as well as other allegations about the involvement
> of the Armed forces
> of the Union of Myanmar with narcotics destined for
> Thailand.
> 
> The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB)
> wishes to inform you
> that such article caused the enormous
> misunderstanding that the Royal
> Thai Government accused the Myanmar military of 
> helping the UWSA for
> illicit methamphetamine production. This leads to
> the tremendous
> damage to the bilateral cooperation on drug control
> between the  Royal
> Thai Government and the Government of the Union of
> Myanmar which is
> proceeding progressively on mutual understanding
> basis.  The ONCB,  as
> the national narcotics control agency,  has enjoyed
> excellent
> cooperation with the  Government of the Union  of
> Myanmar through the
> Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC)
> which  is the
> national drug  control agency of the Union of
> Myanmar.  Both
> organizations have worked closely with each other in
> our joint
> endeavours for a common objective: the eradication
> of the narcotics
> scourges that threatens the health  and the lives of
> our people. It is
> therefore, highly regrettable that aspersion has
> been casted by the
> aforementioned report in your  newspaper  on the
> authorities of the
> Union of Myanmar who have extended serious, sincere
> and  positive
> cooperation to the Thai authorities in our common
> war against
> narcotics. The Royal Thai Government has placed the
> bilateral
> cooperation with  neighbouring countries on drug
> control as the
> priority. The news that lead to the  adverse effect
> to the national
> foreign relationship should not be presented.
> 
> I do hope that The Bangkok Post will in the future
> verify your
> information directly with the  ONCB in order to
> present an accurate,
> objective and fair reporting on this narcotics issue
> that would help
> strengthen the mutually beneficial cooperation 
> between the two
> Governments against the drug menace.
>                                     
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> 
> Payont Pantsri
> Secretary-General, NCB
> 
> Editor,
> 
> The Bangkok Post,       
> BANGKOK
> 
> 

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