31.   Other protest flotillas are also planned.

32.   Protest flotillas have sailed to the islands.

33.   Sailors of the traditional Cook Islands wide-bottomed wooden voyaging canoes, or vaca, said at the weekend that they were considering joining a protest flotilla.

34.   Special front pages, outsized photos of the flag-waving demonstrators on the Diaoyu-Senkaku islands and special commentaries praising the protest flotilla were in all mainstream newspapers.

35.   The MPs will sail aboard the Greenpeace ship Machies and will join the anti-nuclear protest flotilla in the vicinity of the Mururoa atoll nuclear test site, Greenpeace said.