Week in Evaluation: 69th General Conference

The 69th annual IAEA General Conference is coming to an in depth, with last discussions round doable resolutions more likely to final into the night.

Resolutions and selections adopted on the convention will information the IAEA’s actions within the coming 12 months. They shall be posted right here as they turn out to be out there.

This 12 months, greater than 3000 contributors registered for the convention, together with 2755 representatives from 153 of the180 IAEA Member States. High-ranking officers in attendance included 57 ministers and 37 vice-ministers. In addition, 348 representatives from worldwide organizations and non-governmental organizations took half. The variety of contributors from non-governmental organizations has greater than doubled since 2021, exhibiting how the IAEA has been rising its engagement world wide.

In his opening assertion to the General Conference on Monday, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi outlined how the Agency has been responding by its distinctive mandate to what he described as “extremely challenging times”.

“[The IAEA’s mandate] spans all the way from reducing the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation — and ultimately therefore also the risk of nuclear war — to using nuclear science and technology to help feed families, light cities and care for children with cancer,” he stated.

The General Conference elected 11 nations to serve on the 35-member IAEA Board of Governors for the 2025–2026 interval. The newly elected Board members are the next: Belgium, Chile, Jordan, Lithuania, Niger, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia and Togo.

The General Conference and Board of Governors are the 2 IAEA coverage making our bodies. The Board examines and offers suggestions to the General Conference on the IAEA’s monetary statements, programme and price range.