…to their original two candidates. After six seven many rounds of voting back in April, the agency’s board of governors remained split between the respective candidates favored by the West, Japan’s Yukiyo Amano, and the global South, Abdul Samad Minty. Two experienced nuclear diplomats from Europe, one of whom many had hung their hopes for a compromise option, have both now backed out. So, besides the Spaniard Luis Echavarri, who got four out of 35 votes, we’re back to where we started.
(image of Yukiya Amano, 2006)