Norway And Commercial Whaling

EDM number 941 in 1989-90, proposed by Tony Banks on 03/05/1990.

That this House expresses its profound concern at the proposal from the Norwegian authorities to seek a resumption of commercial whaling at the International Whaling Commission meeting in July; believes that there can be no justifiable economic reasons for advanced industrialised nations to resume commercial whaling and that the current programme of so-called scientific whaling being carried out by Japan and Norway is a disgraceful sham rightly condemned by the great majority of International Whaling Commission countries; considers that the slaughter of whales amounts to a crime against the planet; calls upon the Norwegian and Japanese governments to heed world opinion and abandon all forms of whaling; and further calls upon European Economic Community countries to adopt appropriate sanctions against Norway and Japan if they persist.

This motion has been signed by a total of 88 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.