Read the following passage and select the best answer for each of the question that follows. A proposal to declare whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic ocean has been defeated at the International whaling Commission (IWC) annual meeting. Latin American countries had argued that declaring a sanctuary would help whale conservation and whale watching. However delegations opposing the motion said there was no need for it. They pointed out that, as there is already a global moratorium commercial whale hunting, adding a sanctuary here was unnecessary. Even some delegates voting for the sanctuary said in private that itwas principally symbolic  issue. Which of the following best describes the paragraph?