On the 53rd General Assembly of IAEA, Yukiya Amano, former Japanese Ambassador to IAEA , was approved the new IAEA Director-General. He will officially succeed retiring ElBaradei on the 1st Dec, 2009.
The International Atomic Energy Agency s annual General Assembly is the Agency s most important meeting, whose tasks are to discuss the work situation on non-proliferation, nuclear safety, nuclear safeguards, nuclear security and promotion of nuclear technology and applications aspects in the past year, and to make the relevant resolutions on a range of issues and institutions for their future budgets.
