Montreux (ots)

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The United Animal Nations (UAN) is not going to rest with the 
Geneva International Court of Justice for Animal Rights' sentence of 
February 22, 2010. Today, its secretary general, Franz Weber, 
delivered the verdict to the guilty fisheries ministers of Japan, 
Norway, Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands with the demand to 
cease an activity that is classified by the civilized world as 
criminal and recognised as such by the court on all counts.

At the same time he sent the verdict to the Australian Prime 
Minister Kevin Rudd as an encouragement to bring Japan, as planned, 
before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, if its 
whaling fleets do not disappear from the international waters of 
Antarctica.

But that's not enough: the verdict concerning the suit by the 
organisations OceanCare, Switzerland, Pro Wildlife, Germany, Dyrenes 
Venner, Denmark, Elsa Nature Conservancy Japan and another fifty 
international complainant organisations went to the President of the 
European Parliament, to the Presidency of the EU Council of 
Ministers, the President of the European Commission, the Council of 
Europe, the United Nations, UNESCO, World Health Organisation, and to
the International Whaling Commission with the demand to brand whaling
and dolphin massacres as piracy and theft from the international 
community and to inform the world in no uncertain terms about the 
dangers of eating whale and dolphin meat impregnated with highly 
toxic substances.

Whaling and dolphin hunting nations will, henceforth, no longer be
allowed to rest until their unnecessary as well as environmentally 
destructive activities are brought to an end. For the good of the 
planet

Contact:

Vera Weber
FONDATION FRANZ WEBER -
International Court of Justice for Animal Rights
1820 Montreux, Switzerland
Tel.: +41/21/964'37'37
Fax: +41/21/964'57'36
E-Mail: ffw@ffw.ch
veraweber@ffw.ch
Internet: http://www.ffw.ch