A General Introduction to International Atomic Energy Agency ( Part 3 )

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 The Composition of Board of Governors:

Following is the structure of Board of Governors proposed by the Indian delegation ( During the formation of International Atomic Energy Agency ) and accepted by all the member nations and retained and continued the same structure till today.

 

For the formation of the Board of Governors, the world was divided into eight regions: the world into eight regions: North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific, and  the Far East.

 

Without naming the countries concerned, the Indian formula provided that the five Member States “most advanced in the technology of atomic energy including the production of source materials” would hold quasi permanent seats on the Board. The five were understood to be the USA, USSR, France, the United Kingdom and Canada.34

 

Similarly, quasi-permanent seats were to be held by the Member States considered to be the “most advanced in the technology of atomic energy including the production of source materials” but not located in the same areas as the top five. In 1956, five of the specified regions were not covered by the top five members: Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific, and the Far East.

 

It was understood that Brazil would hold the seat in Latin America, India in South Asia, South Africa in Africa and the Middle East, Japan in the Far East and Australia in South East Asia and the Pacific.

 

The formula also assigned an alternating seat to the pair Belgium and Portugal and another to the pair Czechoslovakia and Poland (as producers of source material, i.e. natural uranium) and one other seat to a member to be selected by the Board as a supplier of technical assistance (it was tacitly understood that this seat would rotate amongst four Scandinavian countries — Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden). The twelve-nation group thus sought to ensure that nine of its members would have quasi-permanent seats on the Board and three would serve every other year. One nation not participating in meetings of the group, Japan, would have a quasi-permanent seat and one other, Poland, would have an alternating seat.

 

A further ten members were to be elected for two-year terms by the General Conference “with due regard to equitable representation on the Board as a whole, of the members in the [eight] areas,” one each from seven of the specified areas (North America being excluded since it was expected that the two members in this region, Canada and the USA, would be among the top five and hold designated seats). The remaining three elected members could come from any of the specified areas.

 

Although the membership of the Board has since grown to 35 States, the top five have become the top ten and include China, and the Middle East has been joined with the South Asian region, the original Indian formula is still the organizing principle of the Board (Articles VI.A to VI.C of

the Statute). Moreover, with one exception, all those States that in 1956 were assured permanent or, at least, continuous seats on the Board have retained them. The exception was South Africa, which lost its seat in 1977 and regained it in 1995.


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