CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The IAEA headquarters is at the Vienna International Centre in Vienna, Austria. Operational liaison and regional offices are located in Geneva, Switzerland; New York, USA; Toronto, Canada; and Tokyo, Japan.

Detailed explanation-2: -The IAEA Secretariat is headquartered at the Vienna International Centre in Vienna, Austria. Operational liaison and regional offices are located in Geneva, Switzerland, New York, USA, Toronto, Canada and Tokyo, Japan.

Detailed explanation-3: -Headquartered in Vienna, Austria, the IAEA is a UN agency. The primary mandate of the organisation was and continues to be promoting safe, secure and peaceful nuclear technologies. Currently, it has 171 members.

Detailed explanation-4: -Director General Mr Grossi is a diplomat with more than 35 years of experience in the fields of non-proliferation and disarmament. In 2013, he was appointed Ambassador of Argentina to Austria and Argentine Representative to the IAEA and other Vienna-based International Organizations.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the press conference following the signing ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., President Eisenhower evoked his address to the UN General Assembly in December 1953, at which he had proposed to establish the IAEA.