INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA)

The international Atomic Energy Agency was set up on 29th of July 1957 and its headquarters are situated in Vienna, Austria. The IAEA works with its 164 Member States and multiple partners worldwide.

The International Atomic Energy Agency facilitates an environment of peaceful use of nuclear energy and ensures that such use is not for any military purpose, including for nuclear weapons. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) serves as the world’s foremost intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

The IAEA works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear energy. The IAEA’s work also includes setting the framework for cooperative efforts to build and strengthen an international nuclear safety and security regime and verifying States’ fulfilment of their non-proliferation undertakings under the NPT.

The IAEA administers international safeguards to verify that non-nuclear weapon States party to the NPT fulfil the non-proliferation commitment they have made, “with a view to preventing diversion of nuclear energy from peaceful uses to nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive devices.”