IAEA / CANDIDATES

The five candidates standing for election to become the next IAEA Director General, present themselves to an informal meeting of the IAEA's member states in Vienna, Austria. IAEA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:33
• Production Date: 26 May 2009
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY - IAEA
• Subject Topical: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; NUCLEAR SCIENCE
• MAMS Id: U090526f

Description

STORY: IAEA / CANDIDATES
TRT: 1.33
SOURCE: IAEA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 26 MAY 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

1. Wide shot, exterior, Vienna International Centre

26 MAY 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

2. Wide shot, IAEA Board Room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Taous Feroukhi, Chairperson, Board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA):
“We have decided Ambassador Amano and Ambassador Minty, Mr. Echávarri from Spain, we also have Ambassador Petric from Slovenia, and the Belgian candidate which is Mr. Jean-Pol Poncelet. These are the five candidates I have at hand. Then we are just starting really. In my view, this informal meeting is perceived like that it could help the member states to have an objective assessment of the five candidates we have.”
4. Med shot, Luis Echávarri of Spain talking with IAEA Board Chairperson Taous Feroukhi.
5. Med shot, Yukiya Amano of Japan talking with a delegate.
6. Med shot, Abdul Samad Minty of South Africa shaking hands with Mr. Luis Echávarri.
7. Med shot, delegates listening
8. Wide shot, all five candidates for the new IAEA DG and the IAEA Board Chairperson at podium
9. Close up, Ernest Petric of Slovenia
10. Med shot, Jean-Pol Poncelet of Belgium
11. Pan left, all five candidates for the new IAEA DG and the IAEA Board Chairperson and delegates listening

Storyline

The five candidates standing for election to become the next Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) presented themselves to an informal meeting of the IAEA's member states in Vienna, Austria today (26 May).

Speaking to the media beforehand, IAEA Board Chair Taous Feroukhi said the purpose of the meeting was to “help the member states to have an objective assessment of the five candidates we have”.

The five nominated candidates are Mr. Yukiya Amano of Japan; Mr. Luis Echávarri of Spain; Mr. Abdul Samad Minty of South Africa; Mr. Ernest Petric of Slovenia; and Mr. Jean-Pol Poncelet of Belgium.

The candidates were nominated by their respective governments in line with a process approved by the Board in October 2008. IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei´s term of office expires on 30 November 2009. He has stated that he is not available for a fourth term of office.

Dr. ElBaradei is the IAEA´s fourth Director General since 1957. He was first appointed to the office effective December 1997, and reappointed in 2001 and 2005. He follows Hans Blix, IAEA Director General from 1981 to 1997; Sigvard Eklund, IAEA Director General from 1961 to 1981; and Sterling Cole, IAEA Director General from 1957 to 1961.