Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Australia will announce its measures to collect photographic evidence against Japanese whaling ships.
"We haven't ruled out the use of Australian assets for the purposes of collecting photographic evidence in support of a possible future international legal case against the Japanese on whaling," Rudd told reporters here.
"I also indicated, when I was overseas, that we will be making our position clear on these matters in the course of this week and we have some further internal deliberations to go on that matter," he said.
"We'll be making a statement later in the week," he added.
However, Rudd would not specify what Australian assets would be used.
Before the Australian Labor Party, of which Rudd is the leader, won the federal election last month, it said it would use military assets to monitor the Japanese whaling ships.
Australian Federal Opposition Leader and former defense minister Brendan Nelson has said sending the Australian Navy to monitor Japanese whaling ships could threaten the relationship between Australia and Japan.
A fleet of Japanese whalers set off last month into the Pacific for the Antarctic Ocean to hunt the huge marine animal, this time including 50 famed humpback whales.
Japan kills 1,000 whales annually. The Japanese agriculture, forestry and fishery ministry's hunting target for this year is 1,035.
Source:Xinhua
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