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Whales, Zero ~ The World, 1 ~ Pacific states desert New Zealand in whaling vote
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I can see why the Republic of Palau voting with Japan, the Palauans have very strong ties to Japan, especially from a tourism point of view.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands, though; that is strange. The Marshallese recently turned down the offer of a multi-million dollar grand trom Taiwan to build a fishing station there -- on environmental grounds!
And the Federated States of Micronesia (Yap, Truk, and Ponape) voted against Japan; that's kind of odd too. If I'd had to guess I'd have thought the FSM delegates would have voted WITH Japan and the RMI delegation AGAINST Japan.
Quoting: Duncan KunzYes, Duncan, The politics ARE odd in this ~ especially as the previos vote, it had gone in favor of keeping the moritorium. I'm thinking that there was some effective lobbying going on ~ and as for the Marshalls, perhaps the representatives attending this meeting voted off the song sheet ~ or perhaps the Marshalls are re-grouping politically. Makes you go, Hmmmm.
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