Morocco, Chair of G77+China, Actively Participates in Consensus on IAEA’s Revised Budget

Speaking on behalf of the Group at the special meeting of the Board of Governors, Ambassador Azzeddine Farhane, Permanent Representative of Morocco, welcomed the IAEA’s commitment to a broad, inclusive and constructive consultation process to adopt the budget by consensus and ensure its ownership by all its members.

While joining the consensus around the adoption of the revised budget, Dr. Farhane welcomed the fact that the currently high share of staff-related costs in the total regular operating budget will be reduced from 75% to 74% by 2023, and that the reduced 1% will be used for computed tomography (CT) and other activities.

In this sense, the Group calls for personnel costs to be further reduced in the future and used for CT-related activities, he stressed.

Also on behalf of the Group, Farhane called for the formation of a working group on the regular budget and Technical Cooperation Fund (TCF) targets for 2024-2025 to examine opportunities for further efficiencies in the Agency’s operations.