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Exterior of hotel where 2007 International Whaling Conference (IWC) is being held2. Close-up of IWC banner over hotel entrance 3. Various of conference room with IWC participants4. IWC sign inside conference room reading: (English)...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Exterior of hotel where 2007 International Whaling Conference (IWC) is being held\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close-up of IWC banner over hotel entrance \u003cbr/\u003e3. Various of conference room with IWC participants\u003cbr/\u003e4. IWC sign inside conference room reading: (English) \"59th Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission, Anchorage, Alaska 2007\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Pan of IWC room\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various close-ups of video screen showing Japanese delegate to IWC, Joji Morishita, speaking \u003cbr/\u003e7. Morishita speaking to participant at conference\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gelnn Inwood, Spokesman for Japanese Delegation:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Japan put forward a very strong, very, very, reasonable proposal for a quota for its traditional hunters. In Japan these people have been hunting whales off the coast of Japan for many hundreds of years, and even some say it's even older than the Alaskan hunting here in the United States.  So a very strong proposal has been put forward, at this stage no consensus has been reached, but it's still on the table.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9.  Cutaway of IWC participants\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gelnn Inwood, Spokesman for Japanese Delegation:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It (the Japanese delegation) hopes to walk away with its quota for its small-type coastal whaling people.  That is a very important item for Japan here.  We certainly hope to have a consensus on a resolution against any interference, illegal interference of our research activities in the Antarctic.  It would not be very good if those organisations go down there and threaten the lives of Japanese crew and scientists again this summer.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Danish delegate at conference\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lasz Bruun, Communications and Program Manager WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals) Nordic:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Denmark has kind of isolated itself as opposed to the other EU countries.  We're the only EU country which is pro-whaling at the moment, which is highly controversial.  And to make it even worse, the vast majority of the Danish population are clearly against commercial whaling.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close-up of \"Denmark\" sign on Danish delegation's table\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lasz Bruun, Communications and Program Manager WSPA Nordic:\u003cbr/\u003e\"So, what I'm actually here to say is that while Denmark should be totally against commercial whaling, both for the whales as well as for the Greenlandic population.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Close of Danish flag\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lasz Bruun, Communications and Program Manager WSPA Nordic:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The best situation for the Danish delegation from their perspective would be a re-introduction of commercial whaling.  I do not think, luckily, that this is going to happen because it needs a three-quarters majority of votes, which I think is unrealistic at this point.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Danish delegate at IWC\u003cbr/\u003eJapan said the International Whaling Commission (IWC) should allow four of its coastal communities to hunt minke whales because the tradition is so old that it qualifies as subsistence hunting.\u003cbr/\u003eJapan's proposal at the annual meeting of the 77-nation commission started a long and contentious debate on Wednesday, a day after the body allowed Alaska Natives to continue the subsistence hunts of bowhead whales until the end of 2012. \u003cbr/\u003eThe issue is scheduled to be decided on Thursday, the final day of the meeting.\u003cbr/\u003eJapan for more than two decades has sought \"community whaling\" status, which would give it quotas similar to those allowing Alaska Natives and other indigenous groups to hunt the mammals.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Japan put forward a very strong, very, very, reasonable proposal for a quota for its traditional hunters,\" a spokesman for the Japanese delegation, Gelnn Inwood, told AP Television.  \u003cbr/\u003e\"In Japan these people have been hunting whales off the coast of Japan for many hundreds of years, and even some say it's even older than the Alaskan hunting here in the United States,\" Inwood added.\u003cbr/\u003eJapan already kills about a 1-thousand whales a year and sells the meat under a scientific research provision allowed by the whaling commission, which enacted a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986.\u003cbr/\u003eJoji Morishita, the alternate IWC commissioner for Japan, acknowledged that if Japan's request is approved, some meat from he minke whales, a relatively small species, would be sold.\u003cbr/\u003eRussia supports the proposal, with its delegation saying Japan's traditional whaling is likely twice as old as Arctic whaling.\u003cbr/\u003eBut, during Wednesday's debate, a number of nations voiced strong opposition, citing the uncertain minke population.\u003cbr/\u003eNew Zealand said the minke proposal is the type of commercial whaling prohibited by the 1986 moratorium and approving it would undermine the ban.\u003cbr/\u003eThe United States and New Zealand also have expressed outrage at Japan's plan to kill 50 humpback whales, an endangered species, as part of its science program in the Antarctic. \u003cbr/\u003eThe two were among nations to successfully pass a symbolic resolution on Wednesday calling for Japan to suspend all lethal aspects of the program conducted within the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.\u003cbr/\u003eAlso on Wednesday, Greenland failed to win consensus on a revised proposal to increase its aboriginal quota of minke whales.\u003cbr/\u003eGreenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory, originally wanted to add bowhead and humpback whales to its hunt for the first time, a move that met adamant opposition on Tuesday. \u003cbr/\u003eCritics said the giant mammals have low reproduction cycles and should not be hunted.\u003cbr/\u003eThe delegation from Denmark said on Wednesday it would drop its plan to harvest humpbacks, but agreement hasn't been reached on other issues so the matter was held over until Thursday's meeting.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Denmark has kind of isolated itself as opposed to the other EU countries,\" said Lasz Bruun, the communications and program manager of the World Society for the Protection of Animals' (WSPA) Nordic chapter.  \u003cbr/\u003e\"We're the only EU country which is pro-whaling at the moment, which is highly controversial.  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