02 July 2009 - 15H21
Japan's Amano elected to head UN nuclear watchdog
Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano was elected to succeed Mohamed ElBaradei as director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency in a closed-door vote Thursday.
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Reuters - Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano narrowly won election on Thursday to become the International Atomic Energy Agency's next director-general, participants in the closed-door vote told Reuters.
Amano scored the required 2/3 majority of IAEA governing board members expressing a preference, with 23 votes and one abstention in the 35-nation meeting, defeating his South African rival for the post.
Many nations had wanted an IAEA leader with broad consensus backing to tackle threats to the global nuclear non-proliferation regime.
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