14. Observer Scheme
(from "Chairman's Report of the Twelfth Meeting")
With reference to the statement of the position which was before the
Commission, the Commissioner for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
stated that as long as two of the countries concerned, possessing one-half of
the total number of pelagic whaling expeditions, remained outside the
obligations of the Convention the setting up of any international system of
control in the Antarctic would serve no useful purpose.
The Soviet Government, however, confirmed its agreement to take part in any
conference to discuss questions relating to the supervision of whaling on the
high seas when all the countries engaged in Antarctic pelagic whaling were
equally bound by the obligations of the 1946 Convention.
The Commission noted this statement.
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