For decades, there is distance between pro and anti whaling nations. However, these countries got a chance to be close each other this time. I'd like to keep paying attention to this issue from now on.
This news is quoted from the following site:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/whale-watch/break-from-the-past-in-whaling-dispute/2008/06/25/1214073287563.html
Environment Minister Peter Garrett has described a decision to try to bridge the global divide over whaling taken in Santiago today as a break with the past.
Australia is one of 24 nations to agree to work behind closed doors over the next year on a resolution to the deadlock between pro and anti-whaling nations.
Mr Garrett told the International Whaling Commission that the organisation had to move away from its 1950's function as a regulator of whaling, in favour of conservation.On the lengthy agenda for the future of the IWC, made public for the first time today, are some of the most bitterly disputed issues facing the organisation, including the global moratorium on commercial whaling.
A possible future bargain between anti-whaling nations and Japan is also flagged, with the inclusion on the list of coastal whaling in a country's own waters.
Some observers believe that this might eventually be exchanged by Tokyo for its right to go scientific whaling in the Antarctic.
The agreement, reached behind closed doors, changes the IWC's rules of procedure to demand greater attempts to reach consensus, rather than go to the votes that so sharply divide the organisation now.
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