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Japanese Candidate Named to Head Nuclear Watchdog

Reported: 18:03 PM - Jul/02/09
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(IsraelNN.com) Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano was elected the next director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), diplomats said Thursday. The term of current dircetor Mohamed ElBaradei ends in the fall.

Amano defeated South Africa's Abdul Samad Minty by a vote of 23 to 11 with one abstention. A previous round of voting by the agency's 35-nation governing board in March did not produce the two-thirds majority needed for a win.

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