Foreign Minister Murray McCully has blasted proposed whaling catch limits set out by the International Whaling Commission as unacceptable to New Zealand and a backward step in the process to find a diplomatic solution.

But Greenpeace is suggesting there is still room for a compromise solution and that New Zealand can help get an acceptable one.

Mr McCully will be contacting other foreign ministers ahead of the IWC full meeting in Morocco in June in a bid to get the proposal improved.

The alternatives were “pretty awful”, he said, suggesting that anarchy on the high seas in terms of whaling was possible.
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