{"id":707713,"date":"2010-04-02T06:51:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T10:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11789"},"modified":"2010-04-02T06:51:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T10:51:09","slug":"will-the-international-whaling-commission-survive-the-australia-japan-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/707713","title":{"rendered":"Will the International Whaling Commission Survive the Australia-Japan Showdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Julian Ku <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"http:\/\/news.asiaone.com\/News\/AsiaOne%2BNews\/World\/Story\/A1Story20100401-208039.html\">This is probably just posturing,<\/a> but it would be a rather dramatic turn of events if the IWC ended up a casualty of the vociferous Australian campaign against Japanese whaling. \u00a0I see the Kiwis are trying to play mediator.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The international body to control whaling worldwide could collapse if a deal cannot be reached to allow restricted commercial whaling, New Zealand&#8217;s representative said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Former New Zealand prime minister Geoffrey Palmer, who chairs an International Whaling Commission (IWC) group trying to negotiate a deal, said the IWC could fall apart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there is a big risk of that and I don&#8217;t relish it,&#8221; Palmer told reporters in Wellington.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Negotiations start next week in DC and the big date is April 22 for a deal to go forward to the annual IWC meeting. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/DyAms-AkBw4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julian Ku This is probably just posturing, but it would be a rather dramatic turn of events if the IWC ended up a casualty of the vociferous Australian campaign against Japanese whaling. \u00a0I see the Kiwis are trying to play mediator. The international body to control whaling worldwide could collapse if a deal cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Y6J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}