{"id":292665,"date":"2019-09-19T05:54:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T05:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292665"},"modified":"2019-09-19T05:59:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T05:59:12","slug":"india-likely-to-back-argentinas-grossi-as-iaea-director-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-likely-to-back-argentinas-grossi-as-iaea-director-general\/","title":{"rendered":"India likely to back Argentina\u2019s Grossi as IAEA Director-General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is expected to back Argentina for the post of Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).<\/p>\n<p>The post has been lying vacant since the last incumbent, Yukiya Amano, passed away on July 18.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Grossi, the Permanent Representative of Argentina at IAEA since 2013 and a former Chairman of the Nuclear Suppliers Group between 2014 and 2016, is the hot favourite for the post, as he is believed to have secured the backing of the US, Russia and China. US Energy Secretary Rick Perry has described Grossi as a \u201cperfect candidate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Grossi was also the president of the Diplomatic Conference of the Convention on Nuclear Security, which had adopted the Vienna Declaration in February 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is expected to back Argentina for the post of Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The post has been lying vacant since the last incumbent, Yukiya Amano, passed away on July 18. Rafael Grossi, the Permanent Representative of Argentina at IAEA since 2013 and a former Chairman of the Nuclear Suppliers Group between 2014 and 2016, is the hot favourite for the post, as he is believed to have secured the backing of the US, Russia and China. US Energy Secretary Rick Perry has described Grossi as a \u201cperfect candidate\u201d. Grossi was also the president of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}