Argentina's Grossi Elected as New IAEA Director General

TEHRAN (defapress)- The International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors selected Argentina's Permanent Representative Rafael Grossi to be the next director general, months after former IAEA director general Yukiya Amano passed away.

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Date: 29 October 2019 - 16:05

Grossi, 58, has secured the necessary two-thirds in a vote by the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors to become its next director general, and is expected to assume office no later than 1 January 2020.

The Argentinian diplomat has been elected the new director general of the IAEA beating out the IAEA's acting Director-General Cornel Feruta and Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation Lassina Zerbo.

In late July, Amano passed away, necessitating the election of a new head of the organisation.

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