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STORY: IAEA / VOTE
SOURCE: IAEA
TRT: 1.25
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 MARCH 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
RECENT, IAEA VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1. Wide shot, exterior, IAEA headquarters
27 MARCH 2009 / VIENNA, AUSTRIA
2. Pan right, Ambassador Yukiya Amano enters board room
3. Med shot, delegate talks to Ambassador Abdul Samad Minty
4. Med shot, Ambassador Yukiya Amano discusses with a delegate
5. Close up, Chairperson, Taous Feroukhi knocks wooden hammer
6. Wide shot, board room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Taous Feroukhi, Chairperson, IAEA Board:
“I welcome this 1235th meeting of the board of governors. Yesterday morning three rounds of voting were held on the two candidates: Ambassador Amano and Ambassador Minty. In the three rounds, neither of the two candidates obtained the support of two thirds of board members expressing a preference. Therefore, as I mentioned yesterday, we found ourselves at paragraph twelve of our agreed procedures. Accordingly, we must now hold a further round of balloting in order for the purpose of paragraph twelve to determine a leading candidate on the basis of a simple majority.”
8. Close up, Minty listening
9. Med shot, Amano listening
10. Wide shot, delegates listening
Voting to elect the next IAEA Director General entered its second day in a secret ballot vote by the 35-member IAEA Board of Governors meeting at the agency's Vienna headquarters.
The two candidates for the post are Yukiya Amano of Japan and Abdul Samad Minty of South Africa. Yesterday, (26 March) neither candidate was able to achieve the two-thirds majority need to win. The Board resumed this morning to continue the balloting on the two candidates, to try to determine a leader.
IAEA Director General Mohamed El Baradei´s term of office expires on 30 November 2009. He has served as Director General since 1997 and has stated that he is not available for a fourth term of office.
