2009-11-26 | You have before you the Agency´s Technical Cooperation Programme for 2010, as recommended by the TACC. This is the second year of an unusual three-year TC Programme cycle, implemented to align the Technical Cooperation Fund and Regular Budget cycles. The aim is that the
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2009-11-20 | This will be my last lecture as Director General and I can´t think of any place more fitting for me to deliver it than at this great institution, Humboldt University. It is also fitting that it should be in honour of a great man of vision and realism, Willy Brandt.
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2009-11-17 | One cannot but be impressed by the rich 700-year history of this distinguished institution. Having trained as a lawyer, I was delighted to note that law was one of the first two degrees offered by the University of Perugia at its inception. Perugia produced some of the most
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2009-11-17 | It is a great privilege for me to be invited to speak here in Assisi, birthplace and burial place of St. Francis, a man whose life of self-sacrifice and dedication to serving the poor remains a powerful inspiration for people of all faiths eight centuries after his death.
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2009-11-02 | Since I first spoke to you in 1998, the Agency has moved from being a relatively unknown technical organization, whose work was of interest mainly to specialists in the nuclear field, to becoming a major player at the centre of issues critical to international peace and
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2009-10-09 | I am absolutely delighted to learn that President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
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2009-09-30 | President Pratibha Patil, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Ladies and Gentlemen:
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2009-09-29 | It is always a great pleasure to visit India. I am especially honoured to speak at this International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, part of the commemoration ceremonies to mark the centenary of the birth of Dr Homi Bhabha.
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2009-09-24 | Thank you for inviting me to address this timely, and I hope ground-breaking, summit. I will limit myself to a few key issues.
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2009-09-15 | My purpose this morning is to stimulate thinking about how the world might deal effectively with two major problems, energy poverty and energy insecurity.
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