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On the IAEA 47th General Conference

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Daily News Bulletin

September 24, 2003

The 47th session of the IAEA General Conference took place in Vienna on September 15-19. It was attended by delegations from almost 100 member states and the representatives of thirty international organizations.

During the conference, participants examined a broad range of problems encompassing the full spectrum of IAEA activities, in particular, nuclear safety, peaceful utilization of nuclear technologies, technical cooperation, and control activities, as well as the Agency's efforts in the prevention of possible acts of nuclear terrorism, and so on. In the spirit of the initiative put forward by Russian President Vladimir Putin for developing innovation nuclear technologies, the conference approved a Russia-proposed resolution on activities by the Agency in this field. All in all, the conference adopted more than 20 resolutions.

In its statement the Russian delegation, which was led by Russian Federation Minister of Atomic Energy Alexander Rumyantsev, especially noted the growing role and importance of the IAEA in ensuring the international regime for the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, cooperation in the utilization of atomic energy for peaceful purposes, and the safe development of atomic power generation.

The Russian delegation held numerous meetings with the delegations of other states, in which various aspects of bilateral cooperation in peaceful uses of atomic energy, as well as the Agency's activities were discussed.

The conference participants unanimously reaffirmed the necessity of further strengthening and raising the effectiveness of the safeguards system of the Agency as the basis of the nonproliferation regime.

The next session of the IAEA General Conference will open in Vienna on September 20, 2004.