Identifier
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07MADRID848
2007-05-09 11:33:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Madrid
Cable title:  

SPAIN SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. INTERNATIONAL WHALING

Tags:  SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD SP 
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DE RUEHMD #0848 1291133
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 091133Z MAY 07
FM AMEMBASSY MADRID
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 2445
INFO RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW 0842
RUEHKO/AMEMBASSY TOKYO 0729
RUEHWL/AMEMBASSY WELLINGTON 0114
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHDC
UNCLAS MADRID 000848 

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR OES/OA (JOHN FIELD) AND EUR/WE; USDOC FOR
NMFS (CHERI MCCARTY)

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD SP
SUBJECT: SPAIN SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. INTERNATIONAL WHALING
COMMISSION (IWC) PRIORITIES

REF: STATE 56397

UNCLAS MADRID 000848

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR OES/OA (JOHN FIELD) AND EUR/WE; USDOC FOR
NMFS (CHERI MCCARTY)

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD SP
SUBJECT: SPAIN SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. INTERNATIONAL WHALING
COMMISSION (IWC) PRIORITIES

REF: STATE 56397


1. ESTHOFF made reftel points May 8 to Spanish IWC
Commissioner Carmen Asencio, urging Spain to support U.S. IWC
priorities. Asencio said Spain would endorse the aboriginal
subsistence whaling quota for Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Sea
bowhead whales and agreed with the U.S. positions on the
Revised Management Scheme and the mandate of the Conservation
Committee.


2. Asencio said she feared that Japan's linkage of the
U.S./Russian bowhead whale quota to Tokyo's request for a
coastal whaling quota would paralyze the 2007 IWC meeting as
it did in 2002, the last time a bowhead quota was considered.
She said she had been demarched by a Japanese Embassy
official, but that Tokyo's approach had not changed Spain's
views. She also said that a New Zealand Embassy official had
visited her and indicated that Wellington believed that the
bowhead quota had the support of at least three quarters of
the IWC member states and would thus be approved.
Aguirre