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Statement to the 40th session of the General Conference of the IAEA & Statement to the 51st session of the UN General Assembly (1996)

Author	IAEA, H.Blix
Date	November 1996
Classification	6.04.0.10/45 (INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS - I.A.E.A.)
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Statement to the 40th Session of the General Conference of the
International Atomic Energy Agency

Introduction

In many countries around the world today the public sector is examined critically in
view of resource constraints. It is natural that also the international public sector
be subjected to critical evaluation. To remain relevant and responsive to the
interests of their Members intergovernmental organizations must be alert to
the need for change and to the need for efficiency in their methods of work.

The subjects of recent years' world conferences-environment, human rights,
population and women-signal that our attention is now concentrated on how to
improve man's and the planet's wellbeing rather than on how to avoid extinction
through nuclear war. This is a welcome change of focus with important
consequences for the work of international organizations-including the IAEA.

The Agency was set up nearly 40 years ago to enable all countries to make good
and safe use of the dramatic progress in nuclear science and technology and to
ensure so far as it was able, that the wide dissemination of this science and
technology did not further any military purpose. These missions, laid down in the
Statute, remain relevant but as my discussion will show the needs and interests of
Member States and the changed international climate have led and is leading to
many changes in the thrust of the Agency's programme.

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