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国際捕鯨委員会第33回年次報告（1983）20頁ー
Chairman's Report of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting
第34回年次総会議長報告
1. DATE AND PLACE

The thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Commission was
held at the Metropole Hotel, Brighton, UK, 19-24 July
1982. The proceedings were presided over by the
Chairman of the Commission, Mr E. H. Iglesias
(Argentina).

2. REPRESENTATION

Commissioners and delegates attended from thirty-seven
member governments. These included the Philippines,
Egypt, Kenya, Monaco, and the Federal Republic of
Germany, who had joined since the previous Annual
Meeting, and Belize, Senegal and Antigua and Barbuda
who joined during the course of this meeting. Dominica,
having given notice of withdrawal with effect from 30 June
1983, and Jamaica were not represented.
Observers were present from seven non-member
governments:
Belgium, Canada, Ecuador, Finland, Indonesia, Ireland
and Portugal.
Observers were also present from seven intergovernmental
organisations:
Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine
Living Resources (CCAMLR)
Commission of the European Communities (CEC)
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United
Nations (FAO)
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
(ICES)
International Commission for the Southeast Atlantic
Fisheries (ICSEAF)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
from the lnternational Union for the Conservation of
Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)
and from fifty-one international non-governmental organisations
listed in Appendix 1.

3. ADDRESS OF WELCOME

An address of welcome was given on behalf of the United
Kingdom Government by Mrs Peggy Fenner, Parliamentary
Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and
Food. She commented that while discussions may be
dominated by the proposals calling for a cessation of
commercial whaling, other issues also reflect the concern
of people throughout the world for the effective
conservation of the whale population. She noted the
importance of refining stock assessments and the need to
find acceptable alternatives to the cold grenade harpoon.
Mrs Fenner re-emphasized the UK's belief that the
International Whaling Commission is the only organisation
through which international co-operation to regulate
whaling can be achieved, having stood the test of time and
grown in size and stature since its inception.

4. OPENING STATEMENTS

Following the Commission's usual practice. opening
statements by Commissioners and Observers were
distributed in written form. The Commissioners from
the new member governments of Monaco, the Federal
Republic of Germany and Belize also took the floor for
verbal presentations.

5. ADOPTIONOFAGENDA

In adopting the Provisional Annotated Agenda
distributed 60 days in advance of the meeting, the
Commission noted the preambular wording inserted by
the USA. This indicated that every agenda item reading
Action Arising is interpreted to imply that a Schedule
amendment may be required. Japan stated its
reservation on this point concerning whether topics can
be made the subject of Schedule amendment.

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