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NZ 'disappointed' at Japan leaving IWC, resumption of whaling

Japan has for decades been frustrated with the hard line of the IWC in maintaining a 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling.

Nevil Gibson
Thu, 27 Dec 2018

Japan says it will withdraw from the International Whaling Commission and start catching whales in its coastal waters after it failed to win approval from the IWC for commercial whaling.

The decision has disappointed the New Zealand government, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says, and has

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Nevil Gibson
Thu, 27 Dec 2018
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