Week in Review: 68th General Conference

The 68th annual IAEA General Conference is coming to a close, with final discussions around possible resolutions likely to last into the evening.

IAEA resolutions and decisions will guide the IAEA's implementation of activities in the coming year. The resolutions and decisions will be posted here as they become available.

This year, almost 3000 participants registered for the conference, including 2671 Member State representatives. With 285> representatives from international organizations and non-governmental organizations, the highest number for a General Conference. Delegates from 150 of the 178 IAEA Member States attended.

In his opening statement to the General Conference on Monday, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi laid out the Agency's key role in global affairs. "Through the International Atomic Energy Agency's unique mandate, we have the responsibility of addressing issues that affect all of humanity. Our priorities include reinforcing and preventing the erosion of a non-proliferation regime that has underpinned international peace and security for more than half a century; the ever-more-present existential threat of climate change, and the ongoing injustice of poverty, disease and hunger."

Watch video of the opening of the conference.

The General Conference elected 11 countries to serve on the 35-member IAEA Board of Governors for the 2024-2025 period. The newly elected Board members are the following: Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, Georgia, Ghana, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, Pakistan, Thailand and Venezuela.

The General Conference and Board of Governors are the two IAEA policy making bodies. The 35-member Board examines and provides recommendations to the General Conference on the IAEA's financial statements, programme and budget.