No consensus reached on whaling during IWC meeting

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Japanese fishermen slaughter a bottlenose whale at Wada  port in Minami-Boso city, Chiba prefecture. Anti-whaling nations failed to reach a consensus on a number of issues with Japan, the world's leading hunter of whales. (AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

But environmentalists said this step, with nations urged not to vote against each other on Japanese whaling or on calls for a South Atlantic whale sanctuary, meant little was achieved at the meeting.

Japan said it would not bow to pressure from the anti-whaling lobby and had not ruled out leaving the IWC altogether, but wanted to give dialogue a chance.

A small group of Greenpeace activists demonstrated outside the Japanese embassy in Santiago on Friday to protest the arrest of two Greenpeace activists.

Editor:Du Xiaodan