The International Whaling Commission (IWC):

@ The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is the global body charged with the conservation of whales and the management of whaling.

@ Membership of the IWC is open to any country in the world that formally adheres to the 1946 Convention.

@ Each member country is known as a Contracting Government and represented by a Commissioner, who is assisted by experts and advisers.

@ India joined IWC in 1981.

@ The IWC has a full-time Secretariat with headquarters located in the City of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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