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Amano, Minty fail in IAEA election
VIENNA, March 27 Kyodo -
Both Yukiya Amano of Japan and Abdul Samad Minty of South Africa failed in
their bids to become the next chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency
after inconclusive voting by the agency's Board of Governors on Friday.
The international nuclear watchdog will now restage the whole election process
from the registration of candidates to succeed IAEA Director General Mohamed
ElBaradei.
The IAEA Board of Governors is hoping to elect a successor before its next
regular session in June and to officially endorse the new chief in September as
ElBaradei's third four-year term will expire in November.
Amano, 61, Japan's ambassador to the Permanent Mission to the International
Organizations in Vienna, and Minty, 69, South Africa's representative to the
IAEA, were the only two candidates in the election.
Now that neither of the two won the election, the slate has been wiped clear
for new candidates and new nominations, Taous Feroukhi, chairwoman to the IAEA
Board of Governors, told reporters.
Amano and Minty can be renominated, said Feroukhi, ambassador and resident
representative of Algeria.
Amano led in three rounds of voting Thursday by the IAEA's 35-nation governing
board in Vienna but could not secure a two-thirds majority.
The board held a fourth round of voting Friday to see which candidate was
leading, and Amano was picked. After that a yes or no vote was held for Amano
but he failed to secure a two-thirds majority.
A yes or no vote was then held for Minty but he also failed to win the required
number of votes.
Among those said to be possible candidates for new nominations are Rogelio
Pfirter, head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and
former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo.
They also include Tibor Toth, director general of the Comprehensive Nuclear
Test Ban Treaty Organization, and Milenko Skoknic, ambassador and resident
representative from Chile to the IAEA who also was chairman of the IAEA Board
of Governors in 2007-2008.
==Kyodo
Both Yukiya Amano of Japan and Abdul Samad Minty of South Africa failed in
their bids to become the next chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency
after inconclusive voting by the agency's Board of Governors on Friday.
The international nuclear watchdog will now restage the whole election process
from the registration of candidates to succeed IAEA Director General Mohamed
ElBaradei.
The IAEA Board of Governors is hoping to elect a successor before its next
regular session in June and to officially endorse the new chief in September as
ElBaradei's third four-year term will expire in November.
Amano, 61, Japan's ambassador to the Permanent Mission to the International
Organizations in Vienna, and Minty, 69, South Africa's representative to the
IAEA, were the only two candidates in the election.
Now that neither of the two won the election, the slate has been wiped clear
for new candidates and new nominations, Taous Feroukhi, chairwoman to the IAEA
Board of Governors, told reporters.
Amano and Minty can be renominated, said Feroukhi, ambassador and resident
representative of Algeria.
Amano led in three rounds of voting Thursday by the IAEA's 35-nation governing
board in Vienna but could not secure a two-thirds majority.
The board held a fourth round of voting Friday to see which candidate was
leading, and Amano was picked. After that a yes or no vote was held for Amano
but he failed to secure a two-thirds majority.
A yes or no vote was then held for Minty but he also failed to win the required
number of votes.
Among those said to be possible candidates for new nominations are Rogelio
Pfirter, head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and
former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo.
They also include Tibor Toth, director general of the Comprehensive Nuclear
Test Ban Treaty Organization, and Milenko Skoknic, ambassador and resident
representative from Chile to the IAEA who also was chairman of the IAEA Board
of Governors in 2007-2008.
==Kyodo
