Iceland has walked out on the International Whaling Commission meeting after its application to join was voted down. It originally wanted to rejoin the IWC, but ignore its 1986 ban on commercial whaling. This week member nations voted 25 to 20 to reject the application at the start of the 54th annual meeting of the IWC in Japan. Iceland called the vote “illegal” and is no longer a non-voting observer nation.
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