Asked by the press within the framework of the World Atomic Week, Grossi replied: “Yes, I intend to do it”, According to the Russian environment Sputnik News.
The Argentine diplomat directs the OIEA since December 2019 and has established itself as One of the most relevant figures in the field of international nuclear safety.
Guterres will leave office in January 2027 and Grossi He had advanced that he analyzed the possibility of applying to replace him although he had not confirmed it so far.
The head of the Oiea He explained that the process to formalize the candidacy will begin “In the coming weeks “: “The wheel has begun to turn.”
According to the site Online policyGrossi I would receive support from the Vaticanwhich could reinforce its positioning in the diplomatic contest.
The General Secretariat of United Nations broken between continents – to the exception of North America for considering that it already has a lot of power – and the Next turn would correspond to Latin America.
Who is Rafael Grossi
Rafael Grossi, a career diplomat and politicalologist at the UCA, assumed in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA), in charge of ensuring the peaceful use of atomic technology, at the end of 2019after the death of his predecessor, Yukiya Amano. In this way, it became the First Latin American in directing the international organism.
His management at the head of the OIEA was marked by the conflict around the Iran Nuclear Programwhose verification and supervision is in the hands of the agency he directs, and for the War in Ukrainewhere the Nuclear plant of Zaporizhzhia He has been under Russian occupation since March 2022. The Argentine personally led Missions at the Central, where the agency teams, including himself, were left in a cross fire. Its repeated demand to establish a protection zone around the plant reflects both the urgency of the situation as its effort to place the agency as a central actor in the prevention of a catastrophe.
Previously, it had been ambassador Argentino in Austria, Slovenia and Slovakia, and -among 2009 and 2013- was deputy director for Political matters and Chief of Cabinet de Amano in the general direction of the OIEA.
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Source: Ambito
