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 1999.

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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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13 subjects

Democratic People's Republic of Korea Disarmament Agreements Illicit Traffic Iraq Nuclear Energy Nuclear Facilities Nuclear Materials Nuclear Safeguards Nuclear Safety Nuclear Terrorism On-Site Inspection Radioactive Materials Technical Cooperation

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12 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;

Takes note of the adoption by the General Conference of the Agency of resolution GC(43)/RES/19 on the amendment to article VI of the statute and the accompanying statement by the President of the forty-third regular session of the General Conference relating to the expansion of the membership of the Board of Governors of the Agency from thirty-five to forty-three following the allocation of each member State to one of the areas listed in article VI, and recalls that the report by the Board of Governors as contained in document GC(43)/12 includes criteria and indicators to be used as guidelines in designating members to the Board of Governors, after article VI, as amended, has entered into force, on the understanding that they will serve as a reference;

Welcomes the adoption by the General Conference of the Agency of resolution GC(43)/RES/8 on the amendment of article XIV.A of the statute, which will provide for biennial budgeting by the Agency;

Also welcomes the measures and decisions taken by the Agency to maintain and strengthen the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of its integrated 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 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 system 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 contributing to and 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, recognizes the important role of the Agency in monitoring the freeze of nuclear facilities in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as requested by the Security Council, expresses deep concern about the continuing non-compliance of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea with the safeguards agreement, in spite of repeated calls by the international community for such compliance, calls upon the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to comply fully with that safeguards agreement and, to this end, urges it 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 the 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, 1051 (1996) of 27 March 1996, 1060 (1996) of 12 June 1996, 1115 (1997) of 21 June 1997, 1154 (1998) of 2 March 1998, 1194 (1998) of 9 September 1998 and 1205 (1998) of 5 November 1998, stresses the need for full implementation by Iraq of all relevant Security Council resolutions, stresses also that the Agency’s ongoing monitoring and verification activities should be resumed without delay, and stresses further that it is essential that, although the Agency is satisfied that the remaining questions which were unanswered as of mid-December 1998 do not prevent the full implementation of the ongoing monitoring and verification plan, the basis for this resumption preserve the Agency’s rights specified in its ongoing monitoring and verification plan, including the full exercise of rights of access as enshrined therein and the necessary cooperation of Iraq, and that greater transparency by Iraq in its dealings with the Agency would contribute greatly to the resolution of the few remaining questions and concerns in the framework of the plan;

Welcomes the entry into force on 24 October 1996 of the Convention on Nuclear Safety,¹⁹ appeals to all States to become parties to it so that it obtains the widest possible adherence, expresses its satisfaction with the outcome of the first review meeting of the contracting parties to the Convention, held in April 1999, and looks forward to the report from the second review meeting, expecting safety improvements, in particular in all areas where the first review meeting found that there was room for such improvements;

¹⁹International 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, decides to bear in mind, while drafting an international convention on the suppression of acts of nuclear terrorism, the activities of the Agency in the prevention and combating of illicit trafficking in nuclear material and other radioactive materials;

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

15 November1999

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