Allotted Seats
Article VI of the IAEA Statutes sets out four steps in choosing the members of the Board of Governors, only three of which involve the areas.
The Board consists of ten members who are the most advanced in atomic energy technology without regard to geographic representation and an additional number likewise most advanced in each of the eight areas from which any of the initial ten are not chosen. These members are designated for one year terms. The General Conference then elects 22 members from the remaining states to two year terms. Eleven are elected each year and must also represent a stipulated geographic diversity.
The twenty-two members elected by the General Conference include twenty states based on the following allottment for each area:
- five representatives of Latin America;
- four representatives of Western Europe;
- three representatives of Eastern Europe;
- four representatives of Africa;
- two representatives of the Middle East and South Asia;
- one representative of South East Asia and the Pacific; and
- one representative of the Far East;
and two additional states:
- one from among members in either the area of the Middle East and South Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific, or Far East; and
- one from among members in either the area of Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, or South East Asia and the Pacific area.
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