Director General Grossi: IAEA is Instrument for Peace, Security and Sustainable Development | IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency
Director General Grossi: IAEA is Instrument for Peace, Security and Sustainable Development | IAEA
US President Dwight D Eisenhower’s ‘Atoms for Peace’ speech in 1953 helped found the IAEA, and since then, his vision “has become an important, active part of our contribution towards international peace and security and furthering sustainable development,” IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi told delegates at the opening of the Agency’s 67th annual General Conference today. “The IAEA is the operational instrument of this noble cause.”
Mr Grossi, who has been reappointed for a second four-year term as Director General beginning December 2023, reflected on the work of the Agency since he assumed office four years ago and the events – the global pandemic and war in Europe – that have made “it more difficult – and urgent – to tackle the ever-more-present calamity of climate change and the very serious challenges of poverty, disease, hunger and food, water and energy insecurity.” In 2022 alone, the IAEA assisted 149 countries and territories in food and agriculture, health and nutrition, and nuclear safety.
Watch the opening of the conference.
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