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Whaling commission meeting in Tokyo

Whaling commission meeting in Tokyo Responding to Japan's appeal, 35 members of the International Whaling Commission (iwc) recently attended the Conference for the Normalization of the International Whaling Commission at Tokyo. Experts see the meet as a show of strength by the pro-whaling lobby ahead of the annual meeting of iwc, which is scheduled for May at Anchorage, Alaska.

As many as 37 iwc member countries, including India, boycotted the meeting.

The participant countries sought to

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