"WSPA is extremely disappointed by the IWC's complete lack of transparency during the negotiation process when it today chose to run the next day and a half of meetings behind closed doors. The outcome could see 88 member goverments agreeing to the inhumane slaughter of up to 13000 whales a year for the next 10 years.
"NGOs are here trying to represent the view of millions of people worldwide who are opposed to commercial whaling and do not want to see this inherently cruel practice legitimised. For the IWC to exclude civil society in this manner, especially with no prior warning, is completely unacceptable.
"Whales are not political pawns, whose lives are to be traded in secret - these are sentient animals that can take over an hour to die when hunted. It is wholly unacceptable that their fate now depends on decisions made behind closed doors, while civil society and the media are obstructed from observing.
"WSPA is strongly urging the IWC to listen to the hundreds of thousands of people from around the world who, in the weeks leading up to this year's meeting, have made it clear that commercial whaling should be permenantely consigned to the history books."
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