A Japanese diplomat, Yukiya Amano, was elected the International Atomic Energy Agency’s next director-general on Thursday, narrowly edging out a South African diplomat for the post, an official at the agency said.
In the last of six rounds of voting at the organization’s headquarters in Vienna on Thursday, Mr. Amano won the required two-thirds majority of the 35-nation board, with 23 yes votes and one abstention, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the election results will not be official until the agency’s governing board meets on Friday.
In earlier rounds of voting, Mr. Amano had been locked in a tie with a South African diplomat, Abdul Samad Minty.
Mr. Amano, 62, an experienced international diplomat, will replace Mohammed ElBaradei, the current director general, when his term expires in November.
Depicted by experts as the candidate favored by the United States and other wealthy nations, Mr. Amano favors a strict approach toward Iran, which Western countries suspect of trying to build nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is purely for civilian purposes to generate energy.
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In the last of six rounds of voting at the organization’s headquarters in Vienna on Thursday, Mr. Amano won the required two-thirds majority of the 35-nation board, with 23 yes votes and one abstention, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the election results will not be official until the agency’s governing board meets on Friday.
In earlier rounds of voting, Mr. Amano had been locked in a tie with a South African diplomat, Abdul Samad Minty.
Mr. Amano, 62, an experienced international diplomat, will replace Mohammed ElBaradei, the current director general, when his term expires in November.
Depicted by experts as the candidate favored by the United States and other wealthy nations, Mr. Amano favors a strict approach toward Iran, which Western countries suspect of trying to build nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is purely for civilian purposes to generate energy.
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Source: The New York Times Online
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