2006年01月24日
ENS日本,東京報導;蘇家億編譯;蔡麗伶審校
巴西、澳洲、紐西蘭、英國及其他13個國家,對日本政府發表了一場正式的外交演說要求其停止在南極海域的捕鯨計畫。而在一份書面聲明中,並要求日本「終止所有其俱毀滅性的科學研究」。
17 Governments Ask Japanese to Stop Antarctic Whaling
Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, along with 13 other countries, have presented a formal diplomatic representation to the Japanese government urging it to stop its Antarctic whaling program. A written statement, or demarche, calls on Japan to "cease all its lethal scientific research on whales."