Sea Shepherd calls for sanctions now

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SEA SHEPHERD INTERNATIONAL

for immediate release

September 14, 2000

 

 

PRESIDENT CLINTON: WIN THIS ONE FOR THE WHALES

- U.S. must defy WTO threat and sanction Japan

 

Secretary of Commerce Norman Mineta's decision yesterday to clear the way

for President Clinton to embargo Japanese fishery products in response to

Japan's expanding " research " whale hunt has put the Clinton Administration

in a fish-or-cut-bait position.

 

Japan has threatened to file a complaint against the U.S. at the World Trade

Organization should Clinton levy trade sanctions. Throughout his

administration, the President has repeatedly failed to impose sanctions

against Norway, Japan, and Canada when they have been certified as engaging

in whale hunts that have undermined the International Convention for the

Regulation of Whaling.

 

" If President Clinton wants to be remembered for an environmental legacy, he

will act now and impose a full array of trade embargoes against Japan, " said

Sea Shepherd president Paul Watson. " It should also be made clear that the

sanctions are being levied against Japan's entire so-called 'research'

whaling program, not just its recent expansion into the North Pacific, all

of which must be halted before embargoes would be lifted. "

 

Since 1977, Sea Shepherd has rammed or sunk ten whaling and fishing vessels

that it has found killing whales, dolphins and endangered marine species in

violation of international conservation law.

 

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ACT NOW:

PRESIDENT CLINTON: SANCTION JAPAN!

 

Contact:

President Bill Clinton

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500

Voice mail: 202-456-1414

Fax: 202-456-2461

 

 

 

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P.O. Box 2616

Friday Harbor, WA 98250

(360) 370-5500

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