While the countries engaged in whaling are trying to lift the ban in force for more than 20 years, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Giancarlo Galan said today that Italy must "do more" in the fight for the protection of large marine mammals.
"The fact that someone might still think, in 2010, to fish unique animals such as cetaceans appears to me not only wrong but also out of time," the minister said in a statement released today. "For this we will, even in Agadir, so that they arrive as soon as possible to the complete banning of this that I want to define a barbarism."
In Agadir, Morocco, is an ongoing summit of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), which must consider the request of some countries - like Japan, Norway and Iceland - to lift the ban on hunting that lasted 24 years. The proposal provides that hunting is allowed for 10 years, in exchange for a strict control. Why is implemented, the pro-whaling countries, however, must convince the majority of the 88 IWC members. While commercial whaling is prohibited, as is currently permitted for scientific purposes. On June 1 last year Australia has sued before the Hague International Tribunal on Japan just to get even the end of the hunt "for search."
"The board of the International Whaling Commission's proposal to reintroduce commercial whaling, that there is neither sensible nor possible, so clearly we oppose," said the minister still Galan.
"To prevent such an outcome we are willing to cooperate with all NGOs that face the same objective. "
Source: http://it.notizie.yahoo.com/4/20100622/tso-oittp-galan-balene-89ec962.html
"The fact that someone might still think, in 2010, to fish unique animals such as cetaceans appears to me not only wrong but also out of time," the minister said in a statement released today. "For this we will, even in Agadir, so that they arrive as soon as possible to the complete banning of this that I want to define a barbarism."
In Agadir, Morocco, is an ongoing summit of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), which must consider the request of some countries - like Japan, Norway and Iceland - to lift the ban on hunting that lasted 24 years. The proposal provides that hunting is allowed for 10 years, in exchange for a strict control. Why is implemented, the pro-whaling countries, however, must convince the majority of the 88 IWC members. While commercial whaling is prohibited, as is currently permitted for scientific purposes. On June 1 last year Australia has sued before the Hague International Tribunal on Japan just to get even the end of the hunt "for search."
"The board of the International Whaling Commission's proposal to reintroduce commercial whaling, that there is neither sensible nor possible, so clearly we oppose," said the minister still Galan.
"To prevent such an outcome we are willing to cooperate with all NGOs that face the same objective. "
Source: http://it.notizie.yahoo.com/4/20100622/tso-oittp-galan-balene-89ec962.html
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