Amano and Peres in previous meeting
Photo: Ido Sharir
Yukia Amano, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, arrived in Israel
on Monday for his first visit since replacing Mohamed ElBaradei
last December.
The meeting is being held on the backdrop of renewed attempts to include Israel in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
During his visit in Israel, which will last three days, Amano is expected to meet with President Shimon Peres, Minister for Strategic Affairs Moshe Ya'alon and Dr. Shaul Horev, director-general of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission.
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Israel was one of the founding countries of the IAEA in 1957, and is represented in the agency by an ambassador on behalf of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Israel has been taking part in many of the activities of the IAEA, which engages in promoting the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and monitors the use of nuclear materials for other purposes.
Amano already met with Peres in January in Davos, Switzerland. The president urged him to act against Iran, warning that "nuclear weapons in the hands of a fanatic leadership like Iranian leadership threaten not just Israel but the entire world."
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