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Ernest Nsabimana, Director General of Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA), deposited today in the hands of IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, four instruments expressing his country’s consent to be bound by multilateral treaties. These are: the Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident, the Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency, the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management, and the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM). With the deposit by Rwanda, there will be 130 Parties to the Early Notification Convention, 124 Parties to the Assistance Convention, 86 Parties to the Joint Convention and 127 Parties to the CPPNM Amendment.

Photo Credit: Diego Candano Laris / IAEA

IAEA Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General Wolfram Tonhauser, Head of the IAEA Nuclear and Treaty Law Section, Office of Legal Affairs Diego Candano Laris, Senior Advisor to the Director General