St. HELIER, Jersey-Australia and Japan, sparred verbally Tuesday IWC meeting in Japan called on its better protect Australian whaling vessels to sabotage raids anti-whaling activists.
The Japanese forced the activists Confrontation to cut short its annual hunt this year in South Australia. Klimaflüchtlinge threw paint bombs, smoke, and rancid butter bottles towards the Japanese whaling ships. They were also in the rope, the Harpoon ship propeller, which slows down the sick.
The Australian Minister for the environment, at the request of Japan rebuffed Tony Burke by saying that even though the Australian followed with safety at sea, as well as the principles of international maritime law, the country "to simply get" with the security of the area than the other, to offer vessels operating in the Japanese ships.
Japanese whalers hunted regularly to south Australia, feeding ground for 80% of the world's whales in the waters of the Antarctic, and the Commission has no enforcement powers to stop them. Japan insists is hunting for scientific research, something of an anti-whaling Nations deny this.
"This so-called scientific whaling is for scientific argument behind it," Burke said. "What's going on in there is a commercial whaling. Australia opposes commercial whaling. "
Australia has launched a complaint to the whaling in the Hague, said the Supreme Court of Japan to the International Court of justice.
Commercial whaling is the 1986 moratorium. "are Negotiations to allow limited commercial whaling last year, and has broke the breakthroughs are expected to be in discussions in the Commission of the whaling Jersey at.
Britain is to make the reforms proposed in the Commission of the transparent and effective, including by forcing Governments in their membership fees, bank transfers, which can be easily traced, the money or checks instead.
The move comes in the allegations last year that Japan has been in use for aid money and personal favors to buy votes, which, in the wake of the disputes in Japan.
"Still I hear that people have to pay their fees in cash. I think that is unacceptable ... and leave your organization Open accusation, "Britain's Minister for fisheries, Richard Benyon, agents said. "These may include the views are not actually, but it is something of this organization must be resolved."
The British proposal on procedural questions on Tuesday, and owned a re the agenda on Wednesday.
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