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Banner Photography:
© Claire Bass
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 St.Kitts & Nevis
Photography By: Claire Bass / EIA St. Kitts and Nevis
joined the IWC in 1992 and was present at the meeting but did
not vote. It did not attend further meetings until 1998, when
it was not allowed to vote because of unpaid dues. St. Kitts
and Nevis’s
first votes were cast when it attended the IWC in 1999. Its
actions mirrored Japan’s exactly, including walking out
of the meeting in protest at a Resolution calling on Japan
to reduce the number of Dall’s porpoises killed in Japanese
coastal waters. Just 3 out of 78 votes cast by both countries
since 1999 have been different – and two of these were
abstentions by St. Kitts and Nevis, rather than votes opposing
Japan’s
position.
In 2006 the Fisheries Minister and IWC Commissioner,
Cedric Liburd went further, stating that he would support
the development of a whaling industry in the Caribbean itself.
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TAKE ACTION
Contact the Prime Minister and IWC Commissioner of St. Kitts & Nevis
and urge them to oppose commercial whaling.
Hon. Dr. Denzil Llewellyn Douglas - Prime
Minister
St Kitts & Nevis
Government Headquarters
Church Street, Basseterre
St. Kitts
Tel: 869-465-0299
Fax: 869-466-9997
Hon. Cedric Liburd - Minister
of Agriculture, Lands & Housing*
Department of Agriculture
Ministry of Housing, Agriculture, and Fisheries
La Guerite
P. O. Box 39
Basseterre
St. Kitts and Nevis, West Indies
Tel: 869-465-2335
Fax: 869-465-2928
*
Mr Cedric Liburd has been the Commissioner for St. Kitts & Nevis since 2001.
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