"Low on Funds, Can the IAEA Keep Going?"

"The International Atomic Energy Agency, the organization that promotes peaceful uses of nuclear energy, is short of money, its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, warned at the IAEA’s annual general conference in Vienna last month and again last week at a conference in New York. The agency has issued an urgent appeal for an infusion of cash and other resources to enable it to continue operating."

“I must stand here today and let you know that all is not well with the IAEA,” said ElBaradei at the Vienna conference. “The agency can do much to meet the world´s nuclear challenges if given the authority, resources, personnel and technology. Making the agency more effective is critical to international security and to development.”

Read more of Nikolina Saso's article for UNA-USA.

The IAEA is the world´s center of cooperation in the nuclear field. It was set up as the world´s "Atoms for Peace" organization in 1957, at the suggestion of President Eisenhower, within the United Nations family.

Comment: If the energy crisis were not enough reason to support the IAEA, then its function of nuclear verification should be! JAD