On 30 March 2011, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano informed IAEA Member States that the High-Level Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety that he announced on 28 March 2011 would be convened from 20 to 24 June 2011.
The United Nations Secretary-General, the heads of all international organisations that are participating in the Joint Radiation Emergency Management Plan of the International Organizations and the Foreign Ministers of all IAEA Member States have been invited to attend this conference.
Director General Amano also announced that Ambassador Antonio José Vallim Guerreiro, Brazil's Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna and Governor on the IAEA Board of Governors, will coordinate consultations with IAEA Member States to prepare the High-Level Ministerial Conference.
Background
High-Level Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety
"To learn the right lessons from what happened on 11 March and afterwards" at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and "to strengthen nuclear safety throughout the world," Director General Amano proposed a High-Level Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety that should provide an initial assessment of the Fukushima accident, its impact and consequences; consider the lessons that need to be learned; launch the process of strengthening nuclear safety; and strengthen the response to nuclear accidents and emergencies.
Joint Radiation Emergency Management Plan of the International Organizations
The Joint Radiation Emergency Management Plan of the International Organizations was developed and is maintained to substantially improve emergency response. The Joint Plan describes the interagency framework for a response to a radiation emergency and it is applied by the international organisations that are members of the Inter-Agency Committee on Radiological and Nuclear Emergencies: the European Commission (EC), the European Police Office (EUROPOL), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD/NEA), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA), the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The IAEA is the main coordinating body for the Joint Plan's maintenance.