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denkimi zei:
Sylla, a veteran of his fisheries department, explained his country had little interest in whales but had been persuaded to become a member of the IWC by Japan 10 years ago.
Japan is believed to have the backing of at least 38 of the IWC’s 88 members, including three landlocked countries.
Government officials were told we were putting together a coalition of countries who would vote against whaling. They were each offered £25m in aid over 10 years from Kruber’s fund and all they had to do was vote against the whaling quotas at the Morocco meeting.
Six countries indicated they were willing to consider our offer and went away to discuss it with senior officials and ministers. They were St Kitts and Nevis, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Grenada, Ivory Coast and Guinea. Even more revealing were officials’ revelations about their relations with Japan.
“Japan supports our position commercially,” he said. He was not just referring to the millions in fisheries aid that Japan has given Guinea over the years.
The reporters asked Sylla what other payments they would have to make to match the financial assistance offered by Japan. There were several.
Japan, Sylla revealed, pays Guinea’s £7,900 annual IWC membership fee as well as funding his country’s attendance at the meetings. Travel, hotels and meals were all paid for and each delegate receives up to $300 a day spending money. The average annual wage in Guinea is $1,000.
On the occasions that Guinea’s minister attends as the IWC commissioner, he or she is provided with a car by Japan and spending money. “Minimum, you understand minimum? Maybe one thousand [dollars] a day,” Sylla said.
The cash is handed over by Japanese officials at meetings in envelopes. Sylla said that at some meetings he was given the money for the minister.
Reporter: And then you give it to the minister?
Sylla: Yes. Not straight to the minister.
Reporter: Why not?
Sylla: You know, you know, the minister is a political man.
Reporter: So they don’t want it to seem like they are corrupting the minister.
Sylla: C’est ça. Exactly.
Ze geven derdewereldlanden die niet aan walvisvangst doen of zelfs niet aan de zee liggen geld in ruil voor hun deelname en stem voor walvisvangst aan het iwc. Omkoperij dus.
Flights, girls and cash buy Japan whaling votes - Times Online
Maar die walvis belandt wel in restaurants en winkels. Dus overtreden ze wel degelijk de regelgeving.denkimi zei:
Er zijn geen woorden voor de onzin die gij hier uit uw nek kletst, ik ga er dus ook niet meer verder op in gaan. Keep on trollin' denkimi 
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