PRESS ARRANGEMENTS FOR IAEA BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING, BEGINNING 16 JUNE

IAEA DIRECTOR-GENERAL ADVISED BY U.S. GOVERNMENT TO PULL OUT INSPECTORS

FROM BAGHDAD; SEEKS GUIDANCE FROM SECURITY COUNCIL

(Reissued as received.)

ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY DIRECTOR-GENERAL CALLS ON DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S

REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO REVERSE DECISION ON TREATY WITHDRAWAL

ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY RESPONDS TO REQUEST TO REMOVE INSPECTORS

BY DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

                                                            IAEA/1352

Biographical Note

ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY GENERAL CONFERENCE BEGINS ANNUAL SESSION

VIENNA, 17 September 2001 (IAEA) -- Ministers and high-level governmental representatives from the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) 132 member States are meeting in Vienna this week for the forty-fifth regular session of the General Conference.  The Conference opened today, 17 September, and is scheduled to conclude 21 September 2001 at the Austria Centre Vienna.

NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT PROGRESS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT AFTER TERRORIST ATTACK

ON UNITED STATES SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY MEETING

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the forty-fifth General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), delivered by Steinar Bjornsson, Deputy-Director, United Nations Office at Vienna, on 17 September:

IAEA BOARD REVIEWS RECORD OF SAFEGUARDS IMPLEMENTATION

(Reissued as received.)

VIENNA, 18 June (IAEA) -- The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), meeting in Vienna on 11-14 June, reviewed the implementation of IAEA safeguards last year.

ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY DESCRIBES DISASTROUS IMPACT, ‘LESSONS LEARNED’

FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT

VIENNA, 25 April (IAEA) -- When the news of an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came out, it shocked the world.  The accident was by far the most devastating in the history of nuclear power, and the people of the region continue to live with its consequences.