The Dominican Republic has joined the European Union and 11 other nations in condemning Japan’s Antarctic whaling program. The countries reject the Japanese government’s argument that the annual slaughter is for scientific research and say that it is all about commercial whaling.
In a letter signed by Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, New Zealand, Panama, Peru and Uruguay, the countries expressed their opposition to the so-called scientific whaling especially in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary that was established by the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
Japan is a signatory to the IWC’s moratorium on hunting whales. The moratorium, nevertheless, allows for killing whales in the name of scientific research.
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20 December 2017
