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Thursday, July 25, 2019
Romanian official appointed UN nuclear agency’s interim boss
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has appointed senior official Cornel Feruta as its acting director-general pending the naming of a permanent successor to the late Yukiya Amano.
Feruta, a Romanian diplomat, is currently the chief coordinator of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA says its board of governors designated him as the agency’s interim leader to ensure its “orderly and smooth functioning” until a long-term replacement is in place.
The board earlier today held a minute of silence for Amano, the Japanese diplomat who led the IAEA for a decade until his death last week at age 72. Amano was extensively involved in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program and the cleanup of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
CORNEL FERUTA ,SEFUL DE CABINET AL LUI MIHAI RAZVAN UNGUREANU”UNGUENT”,PROPUS PENTRU CONDUCEREA UNEI AGENTII ONU! https://t.co/J6R6cuJO0N pic.twitter.com/akonpRYCED
— octav (@octavpelin) July 22, 2019
— AP
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