IAEA to approve program of cooperation for 2016-2017 including four Belarusian projects

The IAEA Board of Governors will convene a meeting in Vienna where it will review and approve the technical cooperation program for the next two years. The program includes four Belarusian projects. They relate to infrastructure development and training of specialists in nuclear power, the use of nuclear technologies in medicine, overcoming the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. The total budget is about one million Euro. Strengthening of international technical cooperation of IAEA members will also be discussed as well as preservation of the international regime of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.