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Mon, 06/20/2011 - 10:45
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Iran's N. Chief Departs for Vienna
TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereidoon Abbasi left Tehran for Vienna, Austria, on Monday morning to attend an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear safety conference.
"The nuclear safety conference will be held from June 20 to 24 at ministerial level and Dr. Fereidoon Abbasi will participate in the meeting to represent Iran," Iran's permanent representative to the IAEA Ali Asqar Soltaniyeh told FNA on Sunday.
Soltaniyeh added that addressing the conference and holding a meeting with IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano are also on Abbasi's agenda during the visit to Vienna.
The Vienna meeting seen as a springboard for new international guidelines and procedures for nuclear safety, is likely to focus on the question of a tougher role for the IAEA and the powers of external inspectors to scrutinize nuclear safety and publish their findings.
On 4 April 2011, the 72 countries that are "Contracting Parties" to the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS), which meet every three years to consider the CNS' implementation, gathered at the IAEA's headquarters in Vienna for their fifth Review Meeting.
The ten-day Conference, convening from 4 to 14 April 2011, discussed the country reports on nuclear safety that every Contracting Party is obliged to submit. All countries with operating nuclear power plants are among the CNS' Contracting Parties.
"The nuclear safety conference will be held from June 20 to 24 at ministerial level and Dr. Fereidoon Abbasi will participate in the meeting to represent Iran," Iran's permanent representative to the IAEA Ali Asqar Soltaniyeh told FNA on Sunday.
Soltaniyeh added that addressing the conference and holding a meeting with IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano are also on Abbasi's agenda during the visit to Vienna.
The Vienna meeting seen as a springboard for new international guidelines and procedures for nuclear safety, is likely to focus on the question of a tougher role for the IAEA and the powers of external inspectors to scrutinize nuclear safety and publish their findings.
On 4 April 2011, the 72 countries that are "Contracting Parties" to the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS), which meet every three years to consider the CNS' implementation, gathered at the IAEA's headquarters in Vienna for their fifth Review Meeting.
The ten-day Conference, convening from 4 to 14 April 2011, discussed the country reports on nuclear safety that every Contracting Party is obliged to submit. All countries with operating nuclear power plants are among the CNS' Contracting Parties.
