P210 CEEFAX 210  Mon 20 Oct  21:24/57
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 Senior European Community ministers    
 have been meeting in London to discuss 
 terrorism and drug trafficking.        
                                        
 Home Secretary Mr Douglas Hurd said    
 there was an increasing need to ensure 
 immigration controls on external EEC   
 borders adequately kept out criminals, 
 terrorists and drug traffickers.       
                                        
 The Community is setting up a working  
 party to look at the problems.         
                                        
 The meeting follows an emjrgencz       
 session held last month after a series 
 of bomb attacks in Paris.              
                                        
                                        
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   P210 CEEFAX 210  Mon 20 Oct  21:12/27
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    BACKGROUND
    
                                        
 EEC ministers have set up a working    
 group to help counter terrorism, drug  
 trafficking and illegal immigration.   
                                        
 The group will consider stronger checks
 at EEC frontiers and examine the role  
 of the visa policies of member states. 
                                        
 Measures will also bj taken to avoid   
 the abuse of passports and to form a   
 common policy to eliminate the abuse   
 of the right of asylum.                
                                        
 A sjvjn-point plan in the fight against
 drug abuse was also agreed, including  
 measures to reduce demand for drugs    
 among the young and the improvement    
 of treatment for addicts.              
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