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By Abdelwaheb El Gueyed
VIENNA, April 10 (KUNA) -- The International Atomic Eneregy Agency has
received nomination applications from Slovenia and Malaysia for the post of
the IAEA director general, Mohammad Al-Baradei, whose term is due to expire
next fall.
Official sources at the IAEA headquarters told KUNA on Friday that the
former envoy of Slovenia at the international agency, Ernst Petrich, 72, who
had also headed the IAEA board between 2006 and 2007, was one of the nominees
for the senior post.
Malaysia for its part had filed candidacy papers for the head of its
nuclear authority, Noori Amli, the sources said, adding that the chaiperson of
the IAEA Board of Governors, Tawoos Faroukhi, of Algeria, had received names
of other candidates from the Argentines, Mexico, Spain and Hungary.
The 35-member board will hold a meeting to look into the list of the
candidates for the senior post in the first half of May.
The candidates of South Africa and Japan failed, at an extraordinary
session of the board in the end last month, in securing two thirds of the
votes to occupy the post. (end)
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