Unleashing the nuclear watchdog strengthening and reform of the IAEA : [summary]

Summary: "The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is the nucleus of the global nuclear governance system. ... Although the IAEA is one of the most competent and dynamic of the organizations that comprise the "UN family," it clearly needs strengthening and, in some respects, reform. Over the more than half-century of its existence, the Agency has assumed an identity and presence in international affairs that no member state can gainsay. In some circumstances, it has room for independent manoeuvre, especially by balancing the interests of various member states. It can, in some respects, also strengthen and reform itself. Yet, given that states established the IAEA, pay for it, provide its personnel and other resources, and grant it the necessary powers, privileges and immunities, it is the member states, in the end, that control the Agency's destiny. It is, therefore, to the member states that we must look to trigger and sustain lasting strenthening and reform -- and thus unleash the nuclear watchdog."