Japanese diplomat chosen to lead nuclear watchdog

摘要

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted in Japan's Yukiya Amano as its next director general on 2 July. Amano, 62, won the necessary two-thirds majority of the IAEA's 35-member board by a single vote to beat chief rival Abdul Samad Minty of South Africa, considered a favourite of the non-nuclear-weapons countries.rnBased in Vienna, the IAEA is the international body charged with policing the nuclear-nonproliferation treaty (NPT), the primary agreement meant to halt the spread of nuclear weapons.