ElBaradei To End Tenure at U.N. Atomic Agency
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VIENNA, Austria — The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is not running for a fourth term.
A confidential document obtained by The Associated Press says the IAEA chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, “Is not available for a further term of office” and invites applications to fill the position.
Mr. ElBaradei and the IAEA won the Nobel Prize in 2005 for their nuclear nonproliferation efforts.
He has guided his Vienna-based agency through the most serious troubles it has faced since the end of the Cold War, including failed efforts to keep North Korea from developing a nuclear weapon and futile attempts to keep Iran from developing the technology that could be used to make such arms.
