QNA
The State of Qatar has confirmed that it is looking to expand the technical co-operation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), particularly as it has ambitious programmes in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy in the medical, environmental and economic fields.
Qatar also stressed that it attaches great importance to the technical co-operation programme implemented by the IAEA as a principal legal means to promote the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, noting that it had benefited from the programme in developing its capabilities in the field of nuclear analysis and food laboratories.
This came in Qatar’s statement yesterday at the Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency board meeting on technical co-operation programme offered by the IAEA to the member states, delivered by Ali Khalfan al-Mansouri, Qatar’s Ambassador to Austria and its Permanent Representative to the international organisations in Vienna.
Al-Mansouri said that “this programme plays an important role in making nuclear techniques available for activities in healthcare, agriculture and environmental protection areas, which contribute to the social and economic progress in developing countries.”
He noted that Qatar continues to co-operate with the agency and the Department of Technical Co-operation, particularly in the implementation of projects presented by the State of Qatar during the previous years in fields of nuclear analysis, medical treatment, the development of food laboratories, radiation doses laboratory as well as the development of the National Framework Programme for the organisation of radiation safety and increasing the capacity and preparedness to respond to emergencies.
