Drug Control: U.S. Heroin Control Efforts in Southeast Asia (Stmnt. for
the Rec., 09/19/96, GAO/T-NSIAD-96-240).

GAO discussed U.S. efforts to control heroin trafficking from Southeast
Asia to the United States. GAO noted that: (1) U.S. efforts have
achieved some positive results in Thailand and Hong Kong, but not in
Burma; (2) the United States has supported United Nations (UN) drug
control projects in Burma, but these efforts have met with limited
success because the projects' scope has been small, planning has been
inadequate, and Burma has not provided sufficient support; (3) the
United States suspended direct counternarcotics assistance to Burma
because of human rights violations; (4) much of Burma's heroin-producing
region is not under government control because of insurgencies headed by
drug traffickers; (5) law enforcement efforts against heroin traffickers
are impeded by the traffickers' ability to shift transportation routes
to countries with inadequate law enforcement capabilities; and (6) U.S.
heroin control efforts are also impeded by a lack of cooperation with
China on counternarcotics activities.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-NSIAD-96-240
     TITLE:  Drug Control: U.S. Heroin Control Efforts in Southeast Asia
      DATE:  09/19/96
   SUBJECT:  Drug trafficking
             Narcotics
             Foreign governments
             International cooperation
             Law enforcement
             Foreign policies
             Organized crime
IDENTIFIER:  UN International Drug Control Program
             Burma
             Thailand
             China