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NZ government preparing a U-Turn over its commercial whaling policy
Report – By the PMC News Desk.
UPDATED: The New Zealand government is in retreat over its controversial commercial whaling policy. Its delegat to the International Whaling Commission, Sir Geoffrey Palmer admitted Thursday that he is struggling to get international support for NZ's capped-commercial-whaling plan.
At a joint meeting, NZ's foreign minister Murray McCully also sought alternative ideas, adding that he understood "the symbolism" of a categorical no-commercial whaling plan.
On Wednesday, the Labour opposition cited Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade sources as indicating the National-led Government had failed to attract support for its policy from Australia and other close partners on the International Whaling Commission.
New Zealand had floated an idea to scrap a moratorium that banned commercial whaling in favour of limited commercial whaling. New Zealand argued that loopholes in the moratorium arrangement saw Japan, Norway, and Iceland flaunt the rules and hunt whales supposedly for scientific research.
UPDATE: See also, Scoop audio report with NZ's International Whaling Commission delegat, Sir Geoffrey Palmer and NZ foreign minister Murray McCully.
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