The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today selected Yukio Amano of Japan as the Agency’s next Director General.
In the final round of voting, the Chair of the Board said that Amano won 23 votes from Board members, while Abdul Samad Minty of South Africa won 11 votes and there was one abstention. Tomorrow the Board will meet again and procedurally move to appoint Amano as the Director General. Amano will replace Mohamed ElBaradei, who has been Director General since 1997 and whose current term expires this 30 November.
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