Norwegians quit whaling conference

LONDON - Norway walked out of the International Whaling Commission's annual conference yesterday in protest at a resolution censuring…

LONDON - Norway walked out of the International Whaling Commission's annual conference yesterday in protest at a resolution censuring it for continuing to hunt whales.

The walkout came after the IWC passed a resolution ordering the country to honour the organisation's 1982 moratorium on global whaling, to clamp down on smuggling of whalemeat and to provide information about its stockpiles of meat and blubber, delegates said.

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