WORLD IN BRIEF : NETHERLANDS : Japan Threatens to Leave Whaling Body
Japan threatened to pull out of the International Whaling Commission after its proposal to end a ban on certain types of commercial whaling was overwhelmingly defeated at a weeklong conference in Noordwijk, Netherlands. On Thursday, the commission upheld by more than a two-thirds majority a 1986 moratorium on all commercial whale hunting. Japan, along with Norway and Iceland, has advocated removing the minke whale from the ban, claiming that the minke, the smallest commercially useful whale, is no longer in danger of extinction.
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