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Blocking of Iceland's Effort to Join Whaling Convention
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2017
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1 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, with Schedule of Whaling Regulations, Dec. 2,1946, 62 Stat. 1716, 161 UNTS 72 [hereinafter Whaling Convention]. The Convention is implemented in U.S. law by the Whaling Convention Act of 1949, 16 U.S.C. §§916-916/ (1994).
2 Whaling Convention, supra note 1, Arts. 111(2), V.
3 Id.,Art.V(3).
4 See 2 Birnie, Patricia, International Regulation of Whaling: From Conservation of Whaling to Conservation of Whales and Regulation of Whale-Watching 615, 713 (1985)Google Scholar.
5 See David, D. Caron, The International Whaling Commission and the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission: The Institutional Risks of Coercion in Consensual Structures, 89 AJIL 154, 160–61 (1995)Google Scholar.
6 See IWC Final Press Release, 53rd Annual Meeting (2001), at <http://www.iwcoffice.org/pressrelease2001.htm>.
7 Diplomatic Note from Iceland to the United States, with Attachment (May 10, 2002) (English translation) (on file at GWU).
8 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, May 23, 1969,1155 UNTS 331, reprinted in 8 ILM 679 (1969) (entered into force Jan. 27, 1980). The United States has not ratified the Convention.
9 U.S. Dep’t of State, Iceland’s Adherence to the IWC Convention: U.S. Legal Views 2 (2002) (position paper distributed to delegations attending the IWC’s 2002 annual meeting; on file at GWU).
10 Id. at 2-5.
11 See IWC Final Press Release, 54th Annual Meeting (2002), at <http://www.iwcoffice.org/2002PressRelease.htm>.