Malaysia is one of many IAEA Member States which has benefitted from its participation in the Agency’s technical cooperation programme (TCP) since the 1970s. The new millennium heralded a change in Malaysia’s national technical cooperation programme which, since 2000, has been guided and informed by its Country Programme Framework (CPF), a document which provides the foundation for the provision of short- and medium-term planning of technical assistance to Malaysia. The country’s first CPF was prepared for the period of 2000-2006, while Malaysia’s second CPF was signed in 2011 and will expire in 2016. The most recent CPF document is designed to cover the period of 2017-2021 and will be used as the principal reference while planning the three forthcoming cycles of Malaysia’s national TC Programme. In order to finalize and formalize the newest Country Programme Framework, Mr Dazhu Yang, Deputy Director General and the Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation, made an official visit to Malaysia from 22-25 May. In visiting counterparts in Kuala Lampur, the DDG aimed to strengthen the IAEA technical cooperation programme (TCP) in Malaysia and to sign the prepared CPF document.
Dato’ Dr Muhamad Lebai Juri, Director General of the Malaysia Nuclear Agency, and Mr Dazhu Yang, IAEA Deputy Director General and the Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation, signed Malaysia’s Country Programme Framework (CPF) for the period of 2017 – 2021 on 24 May, 2016. A CPF is the frame of reference for the medium-term planning of technical cooperation between a Member State and the IAEA and identifies priority areas where the transfer of nuclear technology and technical cooperation resources will be directed to support national development goals.
