{"id":883,"date":"2021-09-23T16:54:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T16:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=883"},"modified":"2021-09-25T17:31:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T17:31:31","slug":"pakistan-elected-as-member-of-board-of-governors-of-iaea-for-next-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/paksitan\/pakistan-elected-as-member-of-board-of-governors-of-iaea-for-next-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan elected as member of the Board of Governors of IAEA for next two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Sep 23, (Asia Free Press): Pakistan has been elected as a member of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for the next two years, Radio Pakistan reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPakistan remains committed to Agency\u2019s work in promoting peaceful uses of nuclear energy in keeping with its mandate \u2018Atoms for Peace and Development\u2019,\u201d Pakistan\u2019s embassy in Vienna confirmed in a tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">IAEA\u2019s 65th General Conference has elected Pakistan \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf0 to serve on IAEA\u2019s Board of Governors for the term 2021-2023.  <br>Pakistan remains committed to Agency\u2019s work in promoting peaceful uses of nuclear energy in keeping with its mandate \u201cAtoms for Peace and Development. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IAEAGC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IAEAGC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1qVSOYwVap\">pic.twitter.com\/1qVSOYwVap<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Pakistan Embassy Austria (@PakinAustria) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PakinAustria\/status\/1440975480535015424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairman Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) led Pakistani delegation attended the IAEA&#8217;s General Conference in Vienna Austria where the election was held. Pakistan has been elected 20 times to the board in the past and was last elected as a member of the IAEA in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IAEA has 170 member countries and its board consists of 35 members, out of which 11 are elected to the IAEA&#8217;s board of governors every two years.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Sep 23, (Asia Free Press): Pakistan has been elected as a member of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for the next two years, Radio Pakistan reported. \u201cPakistan remains committed to Agency\u2019s work in promoting peaceful uses of nuclear energy in keeping with its mandate \u2018Atoms for Peace and [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,82],"tags":[360,295,65],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-paksitan","tag-board-of-governors","tag-iaea","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}