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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
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| 00THEHAGUE1810 |
WHALES DEMARCHE [...] DUTCH IWC COMMISSIONER VON DER ASSEN TOLD EMBASSY HE LARGELY SHARES US POSITIONS CONTAINED IN REFTEL. WITH RESPECT TO AGENDA ITEM 7 (SANCTUARIES), VON DER ASSEN SAID THE NETHERLANDS MAY CO-SPONSOR THE AUSTRALIAN/NEW ZEALAND PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH A SANCTUARY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC. WITH RESPECT [...] |
2000-06-19 13:04:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS NL IWC |
| 02ROME4911 |
IWC MEETING - ITALY UNLIKELY TO VOTE BUT STILL [...] ON OCTOBER 4, POST PRESENTED REFTEL DEMARCHE TO SILVIA DE BERTOLDI, ASSISTANT TO GIUSEPPE AMBROSIO, THE ITALIAN IWC COMMISSIONER. DE BERTOLDI WAS CONFIDENT THAT ITALY WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO VOTE AT THE IWC SPECIAL MEETING SINCE THE FISHERIES DIRECTOR GENERAL HAD SIGNED THE IWC-ARREARS PAYME [...] |
2002-10-08 14:37:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS SENV KSCA IT IWC |
| 03ANKARA1637 |
TURKEY WILL NOT JOIN INTERNATIONAL WHALING [...] No summary [...] |
2003-03-14 14:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS SENV TU IWC |
| 04BRATISLAVA228 |
INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION [...] (SBU) POLOFF DELIVERED REFTEL DEMARCHE TO HENRIETA BALOGHOVA OF THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURE AND LANDSCAPE PROTECTION AT THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT (MOE). BALOGHOVA RECENTLY ASSUMED HER PORTFOLIO AND COULD NOT IMMEDIATELY COMMENT ON SLOVAKIA'S POSSIBLE MEMBERSHIP IN THE INTERNATIONAL WHALING [...] |
2004-03-08 05:32:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV LO IWC |
| 04DUBLIN1028 |
IRELAND IN AGREEMENT WITH US REGARDING MEETING OF [...] Summary. Irish IWC Commissioner O'Grady stated that Ireland's positions follow closely with all US positions mentioned in reftel. O'Grady, however, did elaborate on Ireland's positions regarding sanctuaries, and finance and administration. O'Grady stated that the GOI believes sanctuaries a [...] |
2004-07-13 13:34:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS SENV IWC |
| 06LJUBLJANA788 |
SLOVENIA WELCOMES INVITATION TO JANUARY WHALING [...] Econoff met with Emil Ferjancic, Head of the International Cooperation Department at the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning on December 6. Ferjancic stated that he understood the USG desire for pro-conservation countries to participate actively in the International Whaling Commission [...] |
2006-12-07 17:28:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS ETRD KSCA PREL SENV IWC SI |
| 06MANAGUA45 |
NICARAGUA FEELING HEAT FOR PRO-WHALING POSITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Nicaragua's largest daily newspapers have recently published articles critical of the country's pro-whaling votes in the International Whaling Commission (IWC). The Executive Director of the National Fisheries Agency (ADPESCA) told ECONOFF that he has consequently become the ta [...] |
2006-01-11 00:19:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV IWC EFIS NU |
| 06MANAGUA604 |
NICARAGUAN VIEWS ON RECENT INTERNATIONAL WHALING [...] (SBU) As noted in REFTEL, Miguel Marenco, Director General of the Nicaraguan Fisheries Agency (ADPESCA) candidly acknowledged to ECONOFF that his country maintains a quid pro quo arrangement in which Nicaragua supports Japanese whaling positions in the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and [...] |
2006-03-16 19:03:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV IWC EFIS NU UK |
| 06TOKYO2073 |
WHALING: PRIVATE SECTOR GETS OUT OF WHALING [...] Five private fisheries companies that own Kyodo Senpaku, the owner and operator of the vessels used in Japan's lethal research whaling program, have collectively decided to give away their shares to several public-interest organizations, including the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR). GO [...] |
2006-04-17 23:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC JA ETRD |
| 06TOKYO2229 |
WHALING: JARPA II LETHAL RESEARCH FLEET RETURNS [...] The first of Japan's expanded lethal research whaling expeditions under JARPA II returned to Japan from the Antarctic on April 14. The Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) praised the new research program as having been "successfully conducted", but will now turn to the difficult task of try [...] |
2006-04-25 04:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC JA ETRD |
| 06TOKYO2848 |
JARPN II WHALING FLEET DEPARTS FOR WESTERN NORTH [...] Japan's whaling fleet set off the morning of May 23 from three ports to conduct JARPN II (Second Phase of Japan's Whale Research Program under Special Permit in the Western North Pacific), Japan' annual lethal research whaling program in the Western North Pacific, which started in 2000. JARP [...] |
2006-05-23 23:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC JA ETRD |
| 06TOKYO2965 |
WHALING: PRESS ON JAPAN'S POSITION AT IWC [...] According to press reporting, on May 24, Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) held a joint meeting of its fisheries divisions and pro-whaling caucus to discuss Japan's goals and strategies for this year's International Whaling Commission (IWC) Annual Meeting in St. Kitts and Nevis. [...] |
2006-05-30 23:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC JA ETRD |
| 06TOKYO4424 |
WHALING: TOUTING HEALTH BENEFITS, JAPAN MARKETS [...] In an effort to develop consumer demand for its increasing stockpile of whale meat (refs), the GOJ-linked "Geishoku Labo" (Whale Food Lab) held a whale tasting and lecture on July 27 in downtown Tokyo. From more than thirty recipes that Geishoku Labo created, the company offered sashimi (raw [...] |
2006-08-07 06:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC JA ETRD |
| 06TOKYO4949 |
JARPN II WHALING FLEET RETURNS FROM WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC [...] Japan's whaling mothership under JARPN II (Second Phase of Japan's Whale Research Program under Special Permit in the Western North Pacific), its annual lethal research whaling program that started in 2000, returned to Hakodate, Hokkaido in northern Japan in the morning of August 21, about one [...] |
2006-08-30 01:39:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC JA ETRD |
| 06WELLINGTON600 |
PACIFIC ISLANDS BETRAY NEW ZEALAND OVER WHALES [...] (SBU) GNZ feels betrayed by Pacific Island countries (PICs) that voted in support of the pro-whaling lobby at the 58th Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission. But New Zealand officials say that rather than entering into an aid battle with the pro-whaling lobby they intend to re [...] |
2006-08-01 19:17:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EFIS IWC PREL ETRD NZ XV |
| 07BELMOPAN301 |
WHALES Q BELIZE VIEWS ON IWC MEETING [...] On April 30 poloff spoke with Beverly Wade, BelizeQs IWC representa 2. Key issues at IWC meeting. Wade believes that commercial whaling r 3. BCB bowhead whales. Wade told poloff that Belize will likely suppo 4. Revised Management Scheme (RMS). Wade believes that the RMS is a p [...] |
2007-05-04 21:00:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD BH |
| 07BELMOPAN304 |
WHALES - BELIZE VIEWS ON IWC MEETING [...] On April 30 poloff spoke with Beverly Wade, Belize's IWC representative and administrator of the Belize Fisheries Department, to deliver reftel demarche. Responses below are keyed to reftel. 2. Key issues at IWC meeting. Wade believes that commercial whaling remains a key issue for the [...] |
2007-05-04 21:15:00 | Embassy Belmopan | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD BH |
| 07DAKAR1062 |
SENEGAL'S POSITON ON USG INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-16 12:55:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL ETRD IWC SG |
| 07DAKAR1072 |
SENEGAL'S POSITON ON USG INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION [...] (SBU) Senegal plans to support the U.S. positions on the Bowhead Whale quota and the Conservation Committee, according to Mrs. Ndeye Ticke Ndiaye Diop, Senegal's International Whaling Commissioner and Director of the Maritime Fishing Division of the Ministry of Maritime Economy and Mr. Moustap [...] |
2007-05-16 13:18:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL ETRD IWC SG |
| 07HELSINKI329 |
FINLAND CONTINUES TO SUPPORT U.S. IWC POSITION [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche on the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to Mr. Esko Jaakkola, Finland,s IWC representative in the Ministry of the Environment. Jaakkola said Finland will continue to support the consensus and position of like-minded nations during the IWC meeting. [...] |
2007-05-09 12:21:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD FI |
| 07HELSINKI64 |
FINNS ASK 8 EU COUNTRIES TO JOIN IWC [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche on the recent meeting of the pro-conservation countries of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to Esko Jaakkola, Environment Counsellor at the Finnish Ministry of the Environment. Jaakkola, who represented the Government of Finland at the meeting [...] |
2007-02-01 06:22:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS PREL ETRD KSCA IWC FI |
| 07LIMA1885 |
IWC DEMARCHE - PERU ON OUR SIDE [...] (U) Summary: ESTHoff discussed Reftel demarche with MFA'S Director for Maritime Affairs and International Whaling Commission (IWC) Commissioner Doris Sotomayor on May 21. Peru's dues are paid up and the GOP aims to keep it that way. Sotomayor will attend the May IWC meeting; Peru is still sol [...] |
2007-05-30 14:36:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD PE |
| 07LISBON1237 |
PORTUGAL ON INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION [...] On May 3, PolEconOff delivered reftel talking points to Jorge Palmeirim, Portuguese representative to the International Whaling Commission (IWC), who plans to attend the May 28-31 Annual Meeting in Anchorage. Regarding the U.S.-Russia request to update the bowhead whale quota, Palmeirim stated [...] |
2007-05-09 09:31:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD PO |
| 07LONDON1666 |
HMG RESPONSE TO INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-03 09:12:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD UK |
| 07LONDON435 |
INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION SUMMARY OF [...] No summary [...] |
2007-02-02 15:36:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD UK |
| 07MADRID848 |
SPAIN SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. INTERNATIONAL WHALING [...] 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 [...] |
2007-05-09 11:33:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD SP |
| 07NICOSIA396 |
CYPRUS: WHALES - IWC MEMBERSHIP DEAMRCHE ON USG PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) Per reftel request, Post delivered on May 3 demarche on the 59th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Alaska from May 28-31 to Alexandros Zenon, Acting Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We also sent copies to SIPDIS Panicos Pouros, Permanent [...] |
2007-05-08 12:21:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PRL IWC ETRD CY |
| 07OSLO519 |
NORWEGIAN VIEWS ON UPCOMING IWC MEETING [...] (SBU) On May 15 we delivered reftel remarks to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Polar Advisor Karsten Klepsvik. Klepsvik told us that Norway would support the 5-year bowhead whale quota for U.S. and Russia. Klepsvik, however, was amenable to Japan's proposal for Small-type Coastal Whaling provid [...] |
2007-05-16 16:20:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD NO |
| 07PANAMA858 |
GOP TO SUPPORT PRO-CONVERSATION VOTES AT IWC BUT [...] (U) SUMMARY. EconOff delivered REFTEL points on May 22 and 23, 2007 to George Novey, Sub Administrator for the Aquatic Resources Authority (ARAP), and on May 23, 2007 to Deborah Siraze, International Economic Relations Division of the Ministry for Foreign Relations (MIRE). Novey and Siraze tol [...] |
2007-05-25 17:42:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL SENV IWC |
| 07REYKJAVIK116 |
PM CALLS ICELANDIC WHALING AN EXPERIMENT, SIGNALING END TO [...] (SBU). Summary: The Icelandic government is publicly backing away from its October 2006 decision to reestablish commercial whaling. The outspokenness of prominent business figures -- worried about the image of Iceland --coupled with international pressure to stop whaling seems to be having an e [...] |
2007-04-18 15:20:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS IWC IC |
| 07REYKJAVIK144 |
ICELAND WILL SUPPORT BOWHEAD WHALE QUOTA IF IWC SCIENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: DCM and Econoff delivered reftel points to IWC Commissioner Stefan Asmundsson who said that Iceland would support the U.S. bowhead whale quota if the Science Committee approved it. Asmundsson repeatedly stressed that Iceland is in favor of "the sustainable use of whaling" and the [...] |
2007-05-15 17:04:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC IC |
| 07ROME1131 |
WHALES - ITALIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON USG IWC [...] Per instructions in reftel, on May 4, ESTH Counselor contacted Italian IWC Commissioner Giuseppe Ambrosio to convey points on U.S. priorities in advance of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission. We also sent points to Deputy IWC Commissioner Dr. Aldo Cosentino, Direc [...] |
2007-05-25 10:01:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD IT |
| 07THEHAGUE1034 |
DUTCH RESPONSE - IWC MEMBERSHIP DEMARCHE ON USG [...] (U) On May 23, Emboff delivered reftel points to Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature, and Food Quality Maaike Moolhuijsen, Senior Executive Officer - Whales and Stefan Verbunt, Senior Executive Officer - CITES and sought feedback on Dutch views. The GONL did not immediately respond to the [...] |
2007-06-01 12:32:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD NL |
| 07TOKYO2109 |
WHALING: JAPAN SEAMEN'S UNION ON IWC AND NISSHIN MARU [...] As part of its annual pre-International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting "demarche" to Tokyo embassies, the All Japan Seamen's Union's (JSU) Suezo Kondo, Secretary for the Bureau of Fisheries, and Keiichi Imai of the Kanto Regional Branch visited EST Deputy and EST FSN on May 8 to preview the [...] |
2007-05-11 00:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC JA ETRD |
| 07TOKYO3455 |
WHALING: FIRST NATIONAL WHALE FORUM PRESSURES GOJ TO RESUME [...] (SBU) Mayors from coastal-whaling municipalities have officially pressured the GOJ to voluntarily resume commercial small-type coastal whaling (STCW). At a July 7-8 public whale forum in Ishinomaki City, north-eastern Japan, four mayors from whaling sites -- Abashiri, Ayukawa, Wada and Taiji - [...] |
2007-07-29 00:46:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC JA ETRD |
| 07TOKYO5283 |
WHALING: JAPANESE FLEET SAILS ON LARGEST RESEARCH [...] Japan's whaling fleet set sail Sunday, November 18 on the largest hunt to date as part of phase two of the Japanese Whale Research Program under Special Permit in the Antarctic (JARPA II). For the first time since it began research whaling in 1987, Japan intends to take humpback whales (quota [...] |
2007-11-19 07:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS PREL SENV IWC JA |
| 07TOKYO5536 |
WHALING: TENTATIVE AGREEMENT BY JAPAN NOT TO KILL [...] (C) Summary: International Whaling Commission (IWC) Chairman Dr. William Hogarth and IWC Vice Chairman and Japan Fisheries Agency Deputy Director General Akira Nakamae, came to a tentative agreement for Japan to delay killing any humpback whales until after the June 2008 IWC annual meeting. [...] |
2007-12-12 09:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC JA |
| 07WELLINGTON181 |
THE NISSHIN MARU: AN EXAMPLE OF U.S.-NEW ZEALAND [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 15, a factory floor fire disabled the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru in the environmentally fragile Southern Ocean off the Antarctic coast. For eleven days, the stricken vessel remained in the vicinity of the U.S. McMurdo Station and New Zealand Scott Base in [...] |
2007-02-27 20:28:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIS SENV IWC AY NZ |
| 08BRATISLAVA283 |
SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS U.S. PRIORITIES FOR IWC ANNUAL [...] (U) Pol/Econoff conveyed reftel points to Katarina Slabeyova, CITES Management Authority, Department of Nature and Landscape Protection in the Ministry of Environment. Slabeyova will be a GoS representative at this year's annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Santiago [...] |
2008-06-13 15:19:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD LO |
| 08BUCHAREST481 |
ROMANIAN RESPONSE ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR IWC MEETING [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel points in writing and followed up by phone with Mihai MANOIU, the Biodiversity Division Director at the Ministry of Environment, on June 13, 2008. Manoiu admitted that the Government of Romania (GOR) has not given too much attention to whaling, having just joined [...] |
2008-06-17 04:47:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD RO |
| 08COPENHAGEN348 |
DANES SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. IWC WHALING PROPOSALS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Danish government is supportive of the IWC Chair's recommendations and plan of action, and recommends incorporating a mix of geographic and 'ideological' balance in the small working group to develop a possible package of initiatives. The Danes also support procedural impro [...] |
2008-06-16 11:36:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD DA |
| 08COTONOU332 |
BENIN SUPPORTS HOGARTH'S IWC PRIORITIES [...] EconOff delivered Reftel demarche to Joseph Ouake, Benin's International Whaling Commission (IWC) commissioner and Catherine Hounkpe, Benin's Director of Fisheries and Benin's alternate IWC commissioner, on June 9, 2008. Ouake and Hounkpe support Dr. Hogarth's plan of action, the establishment [...] |
2008-06-10 17:23:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS IWC PREL SENV |
| 08LISBON1373 |
PORTUGAL NONCOMMITAL RE: INTERNATIONAL WHALING [...] No summary [...] |
2008-06-12 12:19:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD |
| 08MANAGUA760 |
NICARAGUA: INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION (IWC) DEMARCHE [...] (U) On June 11, Post delivered talking points on USG priorities for the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Meeting to INPESCA Executive President Stedman Fagoth. Fagoth was recently appointed the Nicaraguan Commissioner to the IWC and anticipates his attendance at the June 23 annual meetin [...] |
2008-06-13 23:24:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV ETRD PREL KSCA IWC NU |
| 08REYKJAVIK105 |
ICELAND RESUMES COMMERCIAL WHALING AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 19, the Icelandic Minister of Fisheries Einar Gudfinsson (Independence Party) quietly issued a quota for commercially hunting 40 minke whales for the domestic market. The Icelandic Foreign Minister, along with the other ministers from the coalition Social Democratic party [...] |
2008-06-10 11:48:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD IC |
| 08REYKJAVIK110 |
ICELAND IWC COMMISSIONER PESSIMISTIC ON PROGRESS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Iceland's Whaling Commissioner Stefan Asmundsson told post that he is pessimistic that any progress will be made in the upcoming International Whaling Commission meeting in Chile. Asmundsson was careful not to criticize the IWC Chairman Bill Hogarth but is worried that the focus [...] |
2008-06-13 07:58:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD IC |
| 08TOKYO1758 |
WHALING: GREENPEACE JAPAN ACTIVISTS ARRESTED [...] (U) Japanese police arrested two Greenpeace activists June 20 for trespassing and theft that occurred in connection with what the NGO claimed was an investigation of ongoing theft of whale meat by crew members of Japan's research whaling fleet. According to press reports, Junichi Sato and Tor [...] |
2008-06-26 05:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC ETRD JA |
| 08TOKYO2193 |
WHALING COMMISSION CHAIR DISCUSSES UPCOMING IWC [...] (C) Summary: Chairman of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Dr. William Hogarth and Japanese Alternate Commissioner to the IWC Akira Nakamae discussed outreach to key IWC members, how the IWC Working Group meeting should proceed, and other whaling issues in Tokyo August 5. The Japane [...] |
2008-08-10 22:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV IWC EFIS PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO234 |
WHALING: GOJ FULL SPEED AHEAD [...] (SBU) On January 25, Greenpeace's vessel "Esperanza" ended its shadowing of the Japanese research whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean due to lack of fuel, a Greenpeace official in Tokyo confirmed. She told EconFSN the NGO will continue its campaign against Japan's whaling activities, but for [...] |
2008-01-29 22:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC ETRD JA |
| 08TOKYO3197 |
WHALING: JAPAN REJECTS PROPOSAL TO CURTAIL LETHAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Japan rejects Australia's proposal that it curtail its lethal research whaling activity this year in exchange for Australia's consideration of Japan's coastal whaling proposal, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) Vice Minister Murakami told the DCM November [...] |
2008-11-19 07:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV PREL IWC JA |
| 08TOKYO3377 |
WHALING: JAPAN RESUMES WHALE MEAT IMPORT FROM ICELAND, [...] (SBU) Japan has officially resumed import of whale meat from Iceland for the first time since 1991. According to GOJ officials and industry insiders, Icelandic fin whale meat has been sold in the Japanese market since early November 2008 at a wholesale price of USD 43 per kilogram. Fin whale [...] |
2008-12-12 06:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC ETRD JA |
| 08TOKYO3397 |
WHALING: JAPAN RESUMES WHALE MEAT IMPORT FROM ICELAND, [...] (SBU) Japan has officially resumed import of whale meat from Iceland for the first time since 1991. According to GOJ officials and industry insiders, Icelandic fin whale meat has been sold in the Japanese market since early November 2008 at a wholesale price of USD 43 per kilogram. Fin whale [...] |
2008-12-15 07:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC ETRD JA |
| 08TOKYO575 |
REACTION TO RANCID BUTTER ATTACK ON JAPANESE [...] (C) Summary: Japanese media reported widely on the attacks by the U.S. NGO Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on Japan's whaling fleet in waters near Antarctica on March 3. The GOJ strongly condemned the attacks and called in the Dutch and Australian Ambassadors to protest, according to press [...] |
2008-03-04 22:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EFIS IWC KSCA JA |
| 08TOKYO958 |
WHALING: JAPANESE RESOLUTION CALLS ON U.S. TO ACT AGAINST [...] Japan's House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries unanimously adopted a resolution (No.169-4) condemning the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and other anti-whaling NGOs' interference with Japan's research whaling April 2. The resolution, submitted to Foreign [...] |
2008-04-08 07:41:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC ETRD JA |
| 08ULAANBAATAR283 |
Mongolia Considers Abstaining on Major Votes at June IWC [...] (SBU) Econoff met with Deputy Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affair's Law & Treaty Department S. Gankhuyag on June 12 to deliver specified talking points listed in reftel on USG priorities for the International Whaling Commission's 2008 annual meeting (June 23-27; Santiago, Chile). Ganhuy [...] |
2008-06-12 09:20:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD MG |
| 08ZAGREB463 |
US PRIORITIES FOR INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION [...] No summary [...] |
2008-06-20 14:24:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD |
| 08ZAGREB472 |
US PRIORITIES FOR INT'L WHALING COMMISSION [...] No summary [...] |
2008-06-24 10:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD HR |
| 09BRASILIA760 |
BRAZIL: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON INTERNATIONAL WHALING [...] (SBU) On June 10, Environment, Science, Technology, and Health (ESTH) Officer delivered the points in REFTEL to Andre Mourao from the Ministry of Exterior Relations' Division of Oceans, Antarctica, and Space. 2. (SBU) Mr. Mourao received the demarche, but did not provide a substantive respo [...] |
2009-06-16 19:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC BR |
| 09BRAZZAVILLE178 |
CONGO/BRAZZAVILLE - INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION 2009 [...] Ambassador met June 11 with J.A. Kolelas, Congo(B) representative to the International Whaling Commission. 2. Kolelas said that Congo was in agreement with the U.S. position. Regarding the chair and vice-chair, he said that he had recently attended a Japanese-organized "preparatory meeting" [...] |
2009-06-11 10:01:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS PREL SENV IWC KSCA |
| 09COPENHAGEN270 |
IWC 2009 MEETING: DENMARK/GREENLAND VIEWS [...] (SBU) Summary: Denmark's IWC commissioner told us Denmark will again request an aboriginal whaling quota for Greenland, despite uncertainty regarding the whaling policies of the new Greenlandic Home Rule Government. Denmark supports continuation of the "Future of the IWC" small working group [...] |
2009-06-11 10:06:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IWC SENV KSCA PREL PGOV EFIS DA |
| 09MANAGUA579 |
NICARAGUA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) On June 9, Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Steadman Fagoth, Nicaragua's International Whaling Commission (IWC) Commissioner and Executive President of the National Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture (INPESCA). Fagoth has not decided if he will attend the IWC's 2009 annual meeting [...] |
2009-06-11 21:07:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC NU |
| 09MOSCOW1492 |
RUSSIA AGREES WITH U.S. POSITIONS ON INTERNATIONAL WHALING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: One of Russia's two representatives to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) told Post that Russia fully supports U.S. positions for the upcoming IWC meeting in Madeira. Specifically, the government of Russia (GOR) favors continuing the "Future of the IWC" process to reach a [...] |
2009-06-08 06:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC RS |
| 09OSLO438 |
NORWAY TEMPORARILY SUSPENDS WHALE HUNT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Norway's fishing and whaling industry announced that the 2009 whale hunt would be temporarily suspended due to cash flow concerns and the summer holiday. The hunt will be resumed after a short break. Norwegian whalers and the Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs also criti [...] |
2009-07-13 07:09:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD NO |
| 09OSLO767 |
Norway Uncompromising on Whale Catch Limit [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to Ambassador's demarche on Norway's increase in whale catch limits, FM Store on December 10 vigorously defended GON policy as based on scientific principles for the management of marine resources. While noting that Norway had not participated in the International W [...] |
2009-12-11 06:46:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PREL IWC EFIS NO |
| 09PARAMARIBO170 |
SURINAME: THE ROAD AHEAD FOR THE INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) As requested in Reftel, on June 8 Poloff met with Suriname's International Whaling Commission (IWC) Commissioner, Mr. Jaswant Sahtoe, a public servant at the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Fisheries. Mr. Sahtoe indicated that although he was not in a position to state his [...] |
2009-06-08 19:29:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC NS |
| 09PHNOMPENH373 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION AND US [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche and talking points June 5 to NAO Thouk, IWC Alternate Commissioner for Cambodia and Delegate of the Royal Government of Cambodia in Charge of Fisheries Administration, Ministry of Agriculture, Forests, and Fisheries. Mr. Nao praised Commissioner Dr. Hogar [...] |
2009-06-05 06:28:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC CB |
| 09PRAGUE335 |
CZECH REPUBLIC: REPLY TO DEMARCHE ON US PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche on June 8 to Pavla Hycova, a Czech Environment Ministry official working in the Department for the International Protection of Biodiversity. Hycova, who represents the Czech Republic in the IWC small working groups, had no immediate substantive response. Hyco [...] |
2009-06-16 09:34:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC EZ |
| 09REYKJAVIK104 |
ICELANDIC PRIORITIES REVEALED FOR INTERNATIONAL WHALING [...] (U) Emboff met with Iceland's Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Tomas Heidar and Director of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs' Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Department Jon Egill Egilsson on June 9 to relay reftel points and elicit Iceland's priorities for [...] |
2009-06-10 15:23:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD IC |
| 09REYKJAVIK122 |
ICELANDIC WHALING IN FULL SWING WITH 24 FIN WHALES HUNTED [...] (SBU) Icelandic whalers are taking full advantage of the expanded whaling quotas issued by the former Fisheries Minister Einar K. Gudfinsson and have killed 24 fin whales and 20 minkes to date. (Note: The last time fins were hunted in Iceland was in 2006 when seven were killed. About 40 minkes [...] |
2009-07-09 16:53:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD IC |
| 09REYKJAVIK25 |
ICELAND: OUTGOING MINISTER ALLOWS FOR LARGE FIN WHALE HUNT [...] (U) Action request: paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary: On January 27, outgoing Fisheries and Agriculture Minister Einar K. Gudfinsson quietly issued an order potentially allowing a massive increase in Iceland's hunting of fin and minke whales. The order allowed commercial quotas of fin and minke [...] |
2009-01-30 17:10:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EFIS PGOV IWC IC |
| 09REYKJAVIK36 |
ICELANDIC FISHERIES MINISTER PESSIMISTIC ON REVERSING [...] (SBU) Summary: At the head of a delegation of seven ambassadors, the Ambassador urged the new Minister of Fisheries February 7 to rescind the quota established by his predecessor last month that would allow a large commercial hunt for fin and minke whales over the next five years. The Ministe [...] |
2009-02-18 15:40:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD PGOV IC |
| 09REYKJAVIK37 |
ICELANDIC MINISTER CONFIRMS COMMERCIAL WHALING DECISION [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) Minister of Fisheries Steingrimur J. SigfuQon announced on February 18 that his predecessor's controversial increase in whaling quotas for fin and minke whales will stand at least for this year (reftels). Ministry of Fisheries [...] |
2009-02-20 15:45:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD IC |
| 09ROME647 |
INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION: ITALIAN VIEWS [...] Summary. Italian International Whaling Commissioner Giuseppe Ambrosio responded on June 8 to our inquiries regarding the upcoming International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting (reftel). Among the key points: Italy supports keeping the Small Working Group (SWG) closed to observers, and belie [...] |
2009-06-09 06:41:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS SENV PREL KSCA IWC IT |
| 09STATE100275 |
WHALING: US COMMITMENT TO SUPPORT GROUP TALKS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 4-5. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) Post is requested to approach appropriate Government of Japan officials regarding the Future of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Support Group meeting in Santiago, Chile, October 5-1 [...] |
2009-09-25 22:21:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IWC PREL EFIS JA SENV |
| 09STATE108957 |
REPLY FROM SECRETARY CLINTON TO FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (U) Please deliver the following reply from Secretary Clinton to Australian Foreign Minister Smith. There will be no signed original. 2. (U) BEGIN TEXT: Dear Mr. Minister: Thank you for your letter regarding whale conservation and the current diplomatic efforts in which our nations [...] |
2009-10-21 19:34:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL SENV IWC |
| 09STATE117709 |
WHALING: REQUEST FOR POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT [...] (C/NF) This is an action request. See paragraph 3. Post is requested to discuss with State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Tetsuro Fukuyama the potential for reaching a political agreement regarding Japan's whaling practices. Background: 2. (C) Department of Commerce Principal Deputy Undersecretar [...] |
2009-11-14 00:05:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIS PREL SENV KSCA IWC JA |
| 09STATE122645 |
SECRETARY CLINTON'S LETTER TO FOREIGN MINISTER OKADA [...] (U) Please deliver the following message from Secretary Clinton to Japanese Foreign Minister Okada. There will be no signed original. 2. (U) BEGIN TEXT: Dear Mr. Minister: I am writing to request your cooperation in resolving issues that are pending before the International Whaling [...] |
2009-11-30 20:36:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL SENV IWC |
| 09STATE124245 |
REPLY FROM SECRETARY CLINTON TO FOREIGN [...] (U) Please deliver the following message from Secretary Clinton to New Zealand Foreign Minister McCully. There will be no signed original. 2. (U) BEGIN TEXT: Dear Mr. Minister: Thank you for your letter regarding whale conservation and the current diplomatic process to resolve differ [...] |
2009-12-04 03:35:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL SENV IWC |
| 09STATE99783 |
US PARTICIPATION IN JOINT DEMARCHE TO ICELAND ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is an action request. Post is requested TO participate in a joint demarche to the Government of Iceland concerning their recent decisions regarding whaling activities. The text of the demarche is contained in paragraph 5. The United Kingdom has agreed to lead the demarc [...] |
2009-09-24 21:22:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIS IC KSCA PGOV SENV IWC |
| 09TOKYO1216 |
WHALING: JAPAN UNLIKELY TO COMPROMISE IN UPCOMING [...] (SBU) While the Japanese public does not oppose whaling - in fact most support continued whaling - interest groups here are divided over whether to accept a compromise in the International Whaling Commission (IWC) that would allow Japan limited coastal whaling in exchange for a reduction/elim [...] |
2009-05-29 07:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC ETRD JA |
| 09TOKYO1286 |
WHALING: JAPAN SUPPORTS ANOTHER YEAR FOR FUTURE OF [...] (C) Summary: Japan supports continuing the Future of the International Whaling Commission process until the 2010 IWC Annual Meeting, Fisheries Agency of Japan Deputy Director General Jun Yamashita told Emboffs June 8. However, Japan is concerned the "starting point" for the Small Working Grou [...] |
2009-06-09 03:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC JA |
| 09TOKYO2529 |
DCM URGES GOJ TO SHOW FLEXIBILITY IN WHALING TALKS [...] (C) Following up on an October 22 letter from the Ambassador to Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) Minister Hirotaka Akamatsu, the DCM met with MAFF Vice Minister for International Affairs Shuji Yamada November 2 to convey U.S. commitment to build upon progress at recently-concluded talks i [...] |
2009-11-02 07:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC JA |
| 09TOKYO2588 |
JAPAN RECEPTIVE TO FURTHER ENGAGEMENT ON WHALING [...] (C/NF) Summary: U.S. representative to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Monica Medina met with senior officials from the Fisheries Agency of Japan (FAJ) November 4 to discuss progress in negotiations under the Future of the IWC process. The FAJ Director General described the results of re [...] |
2009-11-09 06:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC JA |
| 09TOKYO2592 |
WHALING: MOFA WORKING LEVEL THOUGHTS [...] (C/NF) Ministry of Foreign Affairs working level officials would prefer to postpone any public announcement of a U.S.-Japan commitment to conclude an agreement on whaling by a date certain, and keep our bilateral negotiations confidential until we are closer to an agreement, MOFA Fisheries Di [...] |
2009-11-09 08:39:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC JA |
| 09TOKYO322 |
WHALING: JAPAN ASKS USG TO EXAMINE TAX EXEMPT [...] (U) Please see action request contained in para 5. 2. (C) Fisheries Agency of Japan Director General Shuji Yamada called in EMIN Feb. 10 to raise the recent incident in which a Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) vessel allegedly collided with a Japanese research whaling vessel in th [...] |
2009-02-10 08:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EFIS IWC PREL JA |
| 09TOKYO530 |
WHALING:GOJ REPORTS SEA SHEPHERD TO IMO [...] (SBU) EST Unit Chief and Senior Environmental Affairs LES called on Fisheries Agency of Japan Far Seas Fisheries Division Assistant Director Shigeki Takaya March 9 to inform him of CEQ Chair Sutley's March 6 statement regarding the USG position on whaling, and of USG plans to demarche the Gov [...] |
2009-03-10 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS IWC JA |
| 09TOKYO602 |
GREENPEACE RAISES HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS IN CASE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Greenpeace International representatives met EMIN and EST Chief March 18 to express concern about the case of two Greenpeace Japan activists arrested in 2008. The Greenpeace representatives said the case raises human rights concerns regarding freedom of expression and claimed [...] |
2009-03-18 08:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS IWC PHUM JA |
| 09TOKYO861 |
JAPAN'S WHALING FLEET RETURNS FROM ANTARCTIC [...] (C) Japan's whaling fleet returned from its 2008/9 research whaling expedition in the Antarctic April 13 and 14. The fleet caught 679 minke whales and one fin whale, well below the projected catch of 850(plus/minus 10 percent) minke whales and 50 fin whales, according to a Fisheries Agency of [...] |
2009-04-15 08:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EFIS PREL IWC JA |
| 10TOKYO171 |
WHALING: GOJ NONCOMMITAL ON ENCOURAGING ICELAND TO [...] (C/NF) Summary: EMIN urged MOFA State Secretary Fukuyama and Fisheries Agency Deputy Director General Yamashita to press Iceland to lower its proposed quota for whaling in order to facilitate an overall agreement on whaling. Both Fukuyama and Yamashita said the GOJ is reluctant to take such action. [...] |
2010-01-27 08:45:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC JA |
| 85TOKYO364 |
GOJ WHALING [...] (C) SUMMARY. POST DELIVERS WHALE TALKING POINTS IN REFTEL TO GOJ OFFICIALS IN MOFA. MOFA OFFICIALS QUESTION USG CALCULATION OF GOJ QUOTA UNDER "PAST PRACTICES" FORMULA. GOJ HAS NOT MADE DECISION REGARDING ACTUAL NUMBER OF WHALES TO BE HARVESTED BY ANTARCTIC FLEET THIS SEASON, BUT GOJ AND U [...] |
1985-01-08 09:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIS JA IWC |