IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano delivering his statement at the 71st Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, USA. (Photo: Rick Bajornas/UN Photo) In his annual address to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano provided an overview of the IAEA’s work not just in the past year, but in… Read more »
Bangladesh has signed its new United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for the period 2017–2020 on 3 November 2016. Economic Relations Division Senior Secretary Mohammad Mejbahuddin and UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Representative Robert D. Watkins co-signed the framework document. 13 UN agencies that are resident in Bangladesh and 10 non-resident UN agencies, including the… Read more »
The International Conference on Nuclear Security: Commitments and Actions was held at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria, from 5 to 9 December 2016. (Photo: D. Calma/IAEA) Highlighting the collective commitment to improve nuclear security at the national, regional and global levels, being vigilant about the threats to nuclear security, having concrete measures to protect against… Read more »
A portrait of life in Mongolia is not complete without livestock. For city dwellers and nomads alike, more than 70 million animals are an essential source of food, income and cultural symbols for this country of barely three million inhabitants. Yet livestock owners like Batbaatar Chuluun are calm about highly contagious animal diseases. That’s thanks… Read more »
The International Conference on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management was held in Vienna, Austria from 21 to 25 November, 2016. (Photo: Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel Management Unit/IAEA) An international conference held in Vienna in November concluded that the management of radioactive waste over the last 15 years has improved, and invited governments to… Read more »
Review mission team of the Cigéo Project (Photo: ASN) The safety options of France’s project to build and operate its first deep geological facility for the disposal of high and intermediate-level radioactive waste were overall thorough, an IAEA team of international experts found. The team also proposed recommendations to further demonstrate the robustness of the disposal… Read more »
HE Mr. U San Lwin, Ambassador and Resident Representative of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the IAEA, and Mr Dazhu Yang, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation. (Photo: J. Krickl/IAEA) HE Mr. U San Lwin, Ambassador and Resident Representative of the Permanent… Read more »
PATTEC Coordinators Meeting in Addis Ababa. The 15th Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomosis Eradication Campaign (PATTEC) Coordinators and Stakeholders Meeting has taken place at the headquarters of the Africa Union Commission in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) on 28-29th November 2016. The meeting was organized by PATTEC with the support of the Ethiopian Government as host country,… Read more »
At more than 20 000 tonnes per year, Kazakhstan is the world’s leading uranium producing country. (Photo: Kazatomprom) Kazakhstan, producer of more than 20 000 tonnes of natural uranium per year, has welcomed security guidance recently developed by the IAEA. “It is difficult to overstate the importance and timeliness of the guidance,” said Eldar Nikhanov, physical… Read more »
Cancer care specialists from nine countries in Asia and the Pacific joined experts in Vienna this month to develop ways to improve the quality of life for cancer patients through pain relief – or palliative care. “Even in countries where resources are very limited, we can still try to minimize the pain and suffering felt… Read more »