Japan PM handed anti-whaling warning letter
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E-mail China.org.cn, July 9, 2014
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been personally handed a letter from the founder of a marine conservation organization warning that any resumption of its whaling in the Southern Ocean will be resolutely opposed.
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Caption Paul Watson, the founder of the Sea Shepherd. [Photo/Sea Shepherd] |
Caption Paul Watson, the founder of the Sea Shepherd -- a non-profit marine conservation organization, warns that ships and volunteers from the Sea Shepherd would resume their harassment of Japanese whaling ships.
He pointed out that Japan's intention to return to the Southern Ocean in 2015 to resume illegal whaling activities is a direct violation of the verdict by the International Court of Justice. "On behalf of the Sea Shepherd volunteers worldwide I would like to respectfully request that Japan abide by the ICJ ruling and that Japan respects both the moratorium on commercial whaling and the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary," the letter read.
"If the Japanese whaling fleet returns to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary in 2015, the ships and the volunteers from Sea Shepherd will also return to oppose any continued unlawful whaling activities," it added.
Mr. Watson insisted that Sea Shepherd was not anti-Japanese. He called on Abe to turn Japan into a great maritime conservation nation and to shed its present reputation as a nation that takes from the sea and gives nothing back.
This letter was personally handed over to Prime Minister Abe by Australian Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson at a dinner for Australian Senators and Members at Parliament House, Canberra.
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