Last Friday I met with Alex Garcia, an associate of the Varda Group that is organizing the PEW meeting in Lisbon, and I’ve passed from an invited observer to a local coordinator. Nice! The PEW meeting comes in a time where much discussion is abide related to the IWC and I belive it will be interesting, they will also try to congregate the Portuguese NGOs in a room and hopefully engage them into the IWC affairs!
Scandal within the IWC in again on top of the table…
“Apparently” (IFAW and I have been saying this since the IWC meeting in Chile on last July) the Bush Administration is trying to reach a deal with the Japanese to solve all the whaling issue. (We also start the meeting saying other things that turned almost everyone against us but in the end of the meeting many press releases came out saying what we badgering all along!)
Washington Post story about the attempts to craft a deal
IFAW’s press release on the secret Bush’s administration plan to legitimise Japanese whaling
NGOs are now asking President Obama to cancel all negotiations regarding this “coup d’état”.
Read Greenpeace pledge to President Obama to assert authority and replace officials
I keep saying that this year things will get very interesting, the only down side seems to be me stuffed down on a suit and tie … funny!