{"id":1103,"date":"2007-06-01T04:18:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T02:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2007-06-01T04:18:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T02:18:01","slug":"defending-whales-safety-at-sea-japanese-iwc-commissioner-still-misleading-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/defending-whales-safety-at-sea-japanese-iwc-commissioner-still-misleading-people.html","title":{"rendered":"Defending Whales: Safety at Sea: Japanese IWC commissioner still misleading people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by Dave<\/a> (at the last day of the International Whaling Commission, in Anchorage, Alaska)<\/h3>\n

\"Malcom
\nMalcolm Turnbull, Australian environment minister, with Joji Morishita, Japanese IWC commissioner at the IWC in Anchorage
\n© Greenpeace\/Walsh<\/em><\/p>\n

\nThree days ago, at the opening of this International Whaling Commission meeting, the Japanese commissioner, Mr Joji Morishita requested that no slanderous statements be made during the meeting. It would have been a fine thing if they practiced what they preach. Yesterday, the Japanese delegation completely misrepresented the situation that occurred in the Ross Sea back in February of this year, and made some fairly dodgy comments about Greenpeace. <\/p>\n

It’s all stemmed from a joint New Zealand and Japanese proposal on “Safety at Sea<\/a>“. Japan’s Powerpoint presentation showed a list of our expeditions and encounters with the Japanese whaling fleet. As Shane pointed out earlier – the Japanese delegation have to be commended on this, as it’s possibly a better record than he has! The Japanese commissioner, then showed videos of incidents involving the whaling fleet and vessels from Sea Shepherd. <\/p>\n

Next, Japan’s commissioner talked about the fire on the Japanese factory whaling Nisshin Maru in the Ross Sea, culminating in the death of one crewman. Alas, he completely failed to acknowledge that our ship, the Esperanza (which I was on board) came at high speed to the assistance of the Nisshin Maru while it lay disabled, after being the first vessel to respond to the distress call.<\/p>\n

Continue reading Safety at Sea: Japanese IWC commissioner still misleading people…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted by Dave (at the last day of the International Whaling Commission, in Anchorage, Alaska) Malcolm Turnbull, Australian environment minister, with Joji Morishita, Japanese IWC commissioner at the IWC in Anchorage © Greenpeace\/Walsh Three days ago, at the opening of this International Whaling Commission meeting, the Japanese commissioner, Mr Joji Morishita requested that no slanderous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}