Note To the Director General From the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Of the Russian Federation

On 26 December 1991 the Director General received a Note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation informing him that "the membership of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the IAEA, in all its organs as well as in all conventions, agreements and other international legal instruments, which were concluded within its framework or under its aegis is continued by the Russian Federation (RF) and in this connection in the IAEA the name "The Russian Federation" should be used in the place of the name "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"...