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Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke says South Korea’s backflip on plans to proceed with “scientific” whaling is a massive relief.
South Korea announced at an International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Panama last week that it planned to follow Japan’s lead and use a loophole in the 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling to proceed with a scientific research program.
But Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Thursday said he had been assured by his South Korean counterpart Kim Sung-Hwan that Seoul had decided against going ahead with program.
