Media: Russia has no legal grounds to fulfill the request of Pamela Anderson – RIA Novosti

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MOSCOW, July 10 – RIA Novosti. Do Russia has no legal grounds for the detention of a ship with whale meat, as previously requested the Hollywood actress Pamela Anderson, told the newspaper “Izvestia” deputy head of conservation and use of wildlife Ministry of Nature of Russia Valery Fyodorov.

On the eve of the famous Hollywood Actress Pamela Anderson has posted on the organization’s website SEA Shepherd open letter to Russia to prevent a vessel carrying on board the 1.7 tons of fin whale meat from Iceland to Japan to make a passage through the Northern Sea Route. In his letter, the actress asked the Russian President Vladimir Putin. A spokesman for the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that the Kremlin is not aware of the request of the Hollywood actress.

“In accordance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea we have freedom of navigation. Are we going to punish people for the misdeeds committed in the territory another state? Who gave us this right? Let them examine regulatory authorities of the country where admitted killing fin whales “- quoted by the newspaper” Izvestia “Fedorov said.

newspaper with reference to Head of Shipping Administration of the Northern Sea Route Svyatoslav Stepchenkova reported that the vessel was granted permission to “technical, the passage on a certain route.” The representative of the Ministry of Natural Resources, in turn, noted that the vessel can be stopped only “in the case will go down in one of the Russian ports”.

Finval is a close relative of the blue whale and was almost completely destroyed in the middle of the last century. Hunting is prohibited fin whales since 1982, but in 2006, Iceland has unilaterally resumed commercial hunting of these animals.