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IAEA Director General Visits Norway

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano with State Secretary, Mr. Bård Glad Pedersen, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during his official visit to Norway, 9 April 2014. (Photo: C. Brady/IAEA)

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano thanked Norway for its steadfast support for the work of the Agency for more than half a century during a two-day visit to Oslo on 8 and 9 April 2014.

"Norway was a founding member of the Agency in 1957 and has been active in all areas of our work since then," the Director General said in a speech at an event co-hosted by the Oslo Military Society and the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. "I am very grateful for the strong support, both moral and practical, which Norway has constantly provided."

Director General Amano met with Mr. Bård Glad Pedersen, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as with senior government officials.

He also met with members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, was briefed by senior staff from the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority, and gave a television interview to national broadcaster NRK. He had lunch with members of the Nobel Committee.

In his speech, the Director General said he had fond memories of his visit to Oslo in December 2005, when, as Chairman of the IAEA Board of Governors, he had accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Agency.

He gave a broad overview of key Agency activities in areas such as nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear safety and security, and in peaceful applications of nuclear technology.

"Through our technical cooperation programme, we help to make peaceful nuclear technology available to developing countries in areas as diverse as cancer control, nutrition, the eradication of the tsetse fly, and combating environmental pollution," he added.

Director General Amano also thanked Norway for providing financial support for the modernisation of the IAEA safeguards laboratories at Seibersdorf, near Vienna, which is nearing completion.

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Last update: 26 Jul 2017

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