Cooperation Agreement signed with IAEA
On 13 October 2008, the Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yury Sokolov, and Kaname Ikeda, Director-General of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ, signed a Cooperation Agreement emphasizing the close cooperation of the two organizations.
The IAEA has been closely involved with ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ since the very beginning. Early cooperation phases and the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ negotiation phases, for example, took place under the auspices of the IAEA. The Director-General of the IAEA is the Depositary of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Agreement.
The Cooperation Agreement signed today will join the two organizations even more closely "with a view to facilitating the effective attainment of the objectives set forth in the Agency's Statute and the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Agreement."
IAEA representatives will be invited to attend ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Council meetings and—vice versa—±¬×ߺÚÁÏ representatives will be invited in the annual conferences of the IAEA and its scientific and technical committees. If necessary, representatives of both IAEA and the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ will reciprocally attend other meetings of common interest such as the International Fusion Research Council (IFRC), Coordinated Research Projects and ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Scientific and Technical Meetings.
The IAEA and the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ may also cooperate on training, joint publications and organization of scientific conferences, plasma physics and modelling, materials development and fusion safety and security.
The Agreement, entering into force today, will be communicated to the Secretary General of the United Nations for registration and publication.