Protesters head south

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Native leaders from Clayoquot Sound took their fight south of the border to try to halt logging on Vancouver Island's west coast.

Clayoquot Chief Francis Frank led a delegation of five Vancouver Island chiefs to lobofficials at the United Nations and in Washington, D.C. in support of an international boycott of British Columbia forest products.

The group spent 90 minutes discussing the boycott with Chief of the United Nations Centre for Human Rights Elsa Stamatapoulou.

"We launched a complaint. Following the meeting, (Stamatapoulou) was very helpful in organizing briefs for a presentation in Geneva," Frank said.

The delegates also travelled to Washington, D.C. to meet with federal lobbyists, Frank said. Robert Kennedy Jr. hosted their meeting with his uncle, Democratic party Senator Ted Kennedy.