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General Assembly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Report to the General Assembly: The sixth report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the UN General Assembly covered the period July 1 to October 1, 1962. The report stated that the character of the Agency's programs remained much the same in 1961 as in 1960, but there were some changes in their scope. Technical assistance activities, particularly, training, decreased in 1961 mainly because voluntary contributions again failed to meet the target set. The number of scientific meetings had remained at about twelve a year. There had been some growth in the research contract program, and member states were beginning to make substantial use of the services of the laboratory at Seibersdorf. In 1961, for the first time, member states had asked for the Agency's help in planning individual power reactor projects. It was expected that a number of nuclear power plants would come into operation in the developing areas in the late 1960's and that this would require a good deal of preparatory work in the next few years. In May 1962 the Special Fund approved for the first time a project for the peaceful uses of atomic energy; this decision might provide an important new source of finance for certain types of nuclear science projects in the developing countries.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities I. United Nations
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1963

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1 The activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, an autonomous international organization under the aegis of the UN, are summarized for the sake of convenience under the General Assembly, since, according to the relationship agreement between the Agency and the UN, the Agency is to report regularly to the Assembly. For a summary of the fifth report, see International Organization, Summer 1962 (Vol. 16, No. 3), PP. 567–568Google ScholarPubMed.

2 International Atomic Energy Agency, Annual Report of the Board of Governors to the General Conference, Vienna, 1962Google Scholar; and “Supplement to the Annual Report of the Board of Governors to the General Conference for the Year 1961–62.” The report to the General Conference was issued as IAEA Document GC (VI)/195, and the supplement to it, which covered the period July 1 to October 1, 1962, was issued as IAEA Document INFCIRC/39. See also the covering note by the Secretary-General, Document A/5163 and Add.I. For approval of the report by the General Assembly, see International Organization, Winter 1963 (Vol. 17, No. 1), p. 224Google ScholarPubMed.