IAEA Leadership Opens After Amano Death

摘要

Yukiya Amano, a Japanese diplomat with lengthy experience in the nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament fields, died on July 18 midway through his third term as director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The Vienna-based agency quickly announced a rapid process to select its next leader as the agency continues to face many of the same challenges it did when Amano began his first four-year term in 2009, particularly Iran and North Korea.