Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 14 Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency, published in 1997.

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66 versions · 1959–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/7

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/7	Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency	529	61%Compare
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2023	A/RES/78/8	Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency	502	70%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/9	Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency	404	69%Compare
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8 subjects

Democratic People's Republic of Korea Iraq Nuclear Energy Nuclear Facilities Nuclear Safeguards Nuclear Safety Technical Cooperation Treaties Between States and International Organizations

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13 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency;1

Affirms its confidence in the role of the Agency in the application of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes;

Welcomes the measures and decisions taken by the Agency to maintain and strengthen the effectiveness and cost efficiency of the safeguards system in conformity with the statute of the Agency, in particular, stressing the importance of the Model Additional Protocol approved on 15 May 1997, affirms that strengthening the effectiveness and improving the efficiency of the safeguards system with a view to detecting undeclared nuclear activities must be implemented rapidly and universally by all concerned States and other parties in compliance with their respective international commitments, and requests all concerned States and other parties to safeguards agreements to conclude the additional protocols without delay;

Urges all States to strive for effective and harmonious international cooperation in carrying out the work of the Agency, pursuant to its statute, in promoting the use of nuclear energy and the application of the necessary measures to strengthen further the safety of nuclear installations and to minimize risks to life, health and the environment, in strengthening technical assistance and cooperation for developing countries and in ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of the safeguards systems of the Agency;

Welcomes the measures and decisions taken by the Agency to strengthen and fund its technical cooperation activities, which should contribute to achieving sustainable development in developing countries, and calls upon States to cooperate in implementing the measures and decisions pursuant thereto;

Commends the Director General and the secretariat of the Agency for their continuing, impartial efforts to implement the safeguards agreement still in force between the Agency and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, including their efforts to monitor the freeze of specified facilities in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as requested by the Security Council, expresses concern about the continuing non-compliance of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with the safeguards agreement, and urges the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to cooperate fully with the Agency in the implementation of the safeguards agreement and to take all steps the Agency may deem necessary to preserve all information relevant to verifying the accuracy and completeness of the initial report of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on the inventory of nuclear material subject to safeguards until the Democratic People's Republic of Korea comes into full compliance with its safeguards agreement;

Also commends the Director General of the Agency and his staff for their strenuous efforts to implement Security Council resolutions 687 (1991) of 3 April 1991, 707 (1991) of 15 August 1991, 715 (1991) of 11 October 1991 and 1051 (1996) of 27 March 1996, notes that progress continues to be made in the review of Iraq's full, final and complete declaration and that further progress has been made regarding the content and accuracy of Iraq's six-monthly declarations under the ongoing monitoring and verification plan, notes with concern, however, that Iraq has still not provided the Agency's Action Team with all the information that it has requested, deplores Iraq's obstruction of aircraft used by the Agency in February 1997, calls upon Iraq to cooperate fully with the Action Team in meeting its requests for information and in achieving the complete implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions and the ongoing monitoring and verification plan, stresses again Iraq's obligation to hand over immediately to the Action Team any nuclear-weapon-related equipment, material and information it may still possess and to allow the Action Team immediate, unconditional and unrestricted rights of access in accordance with Security Council resolution 707 (1991), and stresses that the Action Team will continue to exercise its right under all relevant Security Council resolutions and as regards any further relevant information that may come to light;

Welcomes the entry into force on 24 October 1996 of the Convention on Nuclear Safety,¹⁴ appeals to all States to become parties to it so that it obtains the widest possible adherence, and expresses its satisfaction that an organizational meeting of the contracting parties will be held from 29 September to 2 October 1998 and that a first review meeting will begin on 12 April 1999;

¹⁴International Atomic Energy Agency, INFCIRC/449.

Also welcomes the measures taken by the Agency in support of efforts to prevent illicit trafficking in nuclear materials and other radioactive sources and, in this context, calls upon other States to join the programme for preventing and combating illicit trafficking in nuclear materials agreed upon by the participants at the Moscow Nuclear Safety and Security Summit of April 1996 and confirmed at the Denver Summit in June 1997;

Welcomes the adoption of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management in Vienna on 5 September 1997, and appeals to all States to become parties to the Convention so that it may enter into force as soon as possible;

Also welcomes the adoption on 12 September 1997 of the Protocol to Amend the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage and the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage, and appeals to all States in a position to do so to become parties to the Protocol and to the Convention so that those instruments may enter into force as soon as possible;

Expresses its appreciation for the sixteen years of distinguished service by Mr. Hans Blix as Director General of the Agency, and extends its best wishes to Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei, the incoming Director General of the Agency;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Director General of the Agency the records of the fifty-second session of the General Assembly relating to the activities of the Agency.

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