{"id":13,"date":"2010-06-29T17:16:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T00:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/?p=13"},"modified":"2010-06-29T17:16:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T00:16:51","slug":"intl-meeting-in-morocco-fails-to-lift-ban-on-commercial-whaling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/2010\/06\/intl-meeting-in-morocco-fails-to-lift-ban-on-commercial-whaling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Int&#8217;l meeting in Morocco fails to lift ban on commercial whaling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english2010\/world\/2010-06\/26\/c_13370996.htm\">http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english2010\/world\/2010-06\/26\/c_13370996.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AGADIR, Morocco, June 26 (Xinhua) &#8212; The 62nd annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) ended in failure after delegations have not reached a common ground on a compromise proposal to lift the ban on commercial whaling&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At least 600 delegates from 80 countries have involved in a showdown between pro- and anti-whaling nations.\u00c2\u00a0The IWC compromise proposal was to allow Japan, Norway and Iceland to continue commercial whaling for another decade, despite a global ban.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, negotiations fell apart on the compromise proposal despite an unprecedented decision by the IWC to hold the discussions behind closed doors, shutting out civil society and media personnel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/2010\/06\/intl-meeting-in-morocco-fails-to-lift-ban-on-commercial-whaling-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english2010\/world\/2010-06\/26\/c_13370996.htm AGADIR, Morocco, June 26 (Xinhua) &#8212; The 62nd annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) ended in failure after delegations have not reached a common ground on a compromise proposal to lift the ban on commercial whaling&#8230; At least 600 delegates from 80 countries have involved in a showdown between pro- and anti-whaling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/2010\/06\/intl-meeting-in-morocco-fails-to-lift-ban-on-commercial-whaling-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}