News Source: News 24
| 5 months ago
Yukiya Amano's dedication to the elimination of nuclear weapons, Ambassador Abdul Minty said on Friday. Addressing a board of governors meeting in Vienna, where Amano had earlier faced off against other candidates including Minty, the ambassador...
News Source: The Herald
| 5 months ago
U.N. nuclear watchdog gets new chief After a months-long deadlock and a half dozen inconclusive votes, the world's atomic energy watchdog Thursday elected as its leader a Japanese diplomat described as colorless by foes and competent by allies.
News Source: Al Jazeera
| 5 months ago
Japan has welcomed the appointment of one of its diplomats as head of the UN nuclear watchdog...The mayor of Hiroshima, the southwestern city that suffered the first nuclear attack in 1945, was also among those offering congratulatory messages on...
News Source: Hindustan times
| 5 months ago
Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone said Japan would support Amano in various ways but stopped short of saying whether this would include financial aid to the body. Japan suffered US atomic bomb attacks on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 5 months ago
Tadatoshi Akiba, mayor of Hiroshima, the southwestern city that suffered nuclear attacks in 1945, was among those offering congratulatory messages today. Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano was chosen by the 35-nation International Atomic Energy Agency as...
News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
Japanese Ambassador to the organization Yukiya Amano as its new director general on Thursday afternoon. The election did not witness a smooth voting process...October 1957, has now 146 members with its headquarters based in Vienna, Austria.