Yukiya Amano

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Yukiya Amano (2014)

Yukiya Amano ( Japanese 天野 之 弥 , Amano Yukiya ; born May 9, 1947 in Yugawara , Kanagawa Prefecture ; † July 18, 2019 ) was a Japanese diplomat . He was considered an expert in questions of nuclear disarmament and nuclear energy. On July 2, 2009, he was elected Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and took up this post on December 1, 2009. He died in office in July 2019.

Life

Amano graduating in 1972 with a degree in Law at the University of Tokyo and joined in the same year foreign service one. This was followed by study visits to the universities of Besançon (1973–1974) and Nice (1974–1975).

As part of his work for the Japanese Foreign Ministry, he held various positions, so from February 1993 he headed the Department of Atomic Sciences and from August 1993 the Department of Atomic Energy. In August 1994 he was Japan's legal advisor to the Disarmament Conference in Geneva . From June 1997 he held the post of Consul General of Japan in Marseille before he was appointed Deputy Director General for Armaments Control and Scientific Affairs in August 1999. Amano was chairman of the G7 working group on nuclear safety (2000) and represented Japan at the United Nations as an expert on armaments issues . In August 2002 he was appointed Director General of the Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Science Department. Since August 2005 he has been the permanent representative of Japan to the international organizations in Vienna and governor of the International Atomic Energy Agency. In this capacity, he served as Chairman of the IAEA Board of Governors from 2005 to 2006.

Amano also taught international politics at Yamanashi University from 1991 to 1992 and at Sophia University from 2000 to 2001 . In 2001 he was a fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and was a visiting professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies from 2001 to 2002 .

On July 2, 2009, Amano was elected by the IAEA Board of Governors by 23 votes to 11, with one abstention, as the successor to Mohammed el-Baradei as Director General. He prevailed against the South African candidate Abdul Minty . His term of office began on December 1, 2009.

In an interview with the left-wing US TV broadcaster Democracy Now , the famous US journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh claimed , referring to documents published by Wikileaks , that Amano was elected to his office under particular pressure from the US “because he America pledged his fealty to America "(" [...] because what the documents say is that Amano has pledged his fealty to America "). Accordingly, Hersh saw Amano as a kind of vicarious agent of the USA, especially in the controversial question of a possible Iranian pursuit of the atomic bomb.

Honor

A building for IAEA laboratories in Seibersdorf , Lower Austria, opened in June 2020 was named after Amano.

Publications

  • Making the Agenda Stick: Lessons Learned From the 2007 NPT PrepCom . In: The Nonproliferation Review . 1/2009, ISSN  1073-6700 , pp. 15-24.
  • Nuclear security challenges: Japan's view . In: International Atomic Energy Agency (Ed.): Nuclear security - global directions for the future . Vienna 2005, ISBN 92-0-105905-1 , p. 23 ff.
  • A Japanese View on Nuclear Disarmament . In: The Nonproliferation Review . 1/2002, ISSN  1073-6700 , pp. 132-145.
  • The Significance of the NPT Extension . In: Julie Dahlitz (Ed.): Future legal restraints on arms proliferation . United Nations publication, New York 1996, ISBN 92-1-100723-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IAEA chief Amano dead. Sda, July 22, 2019. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
  2. ↑ Japanese Amano will lead the IAEA from November , www.tagesschau.de . July 2, 2009. Archived from the original on July 5, 2009. 
  3. ^ Announcement IAEA. July 22, 2019. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
  4. ^ "Seymour Hersh: Propaganda Used Ahead of Iraq War Is Now Being Reused over Iran's Nuke Program" , Democracy Now !, Nov. 21, 2011
  5. ↑ ORF.At, June 6, 2020

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personal data
SURNAME Amano, Yukiya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 天野 之 弥 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Yugawara , Kanagawa Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH 18th July 2019