we are very proud to have michael adler on the podium here is a senior scholar at the wilson center. michael was the correspondent in vienna covering the iaea for years. michael will moderate today's session. digi amano is here to help us understand the iaea, help us understand how it is helping preserve the nuclear nonproliferation treaty's grand bargain. he is uniquely qualified to do so. his career spans 36 years in the japanese foreign ministry, and he has served with the iaea since the 1990's. he played a key role in securing an agreement should to -- to shut down chernobyl's unit number three as chair of the g7 nuclear safety roup in the year 2000 -- group in the year 2000. please join me in welcoming director general amano. director general amano will speak briefly, and then michael adler will have a dialogue for our guest, preserving have the time for your questions. thank you for coming to the wilson center this morning. director general? [applause] >> good morning, everyone. it is a great pleasure to me to be invited and given the opportunity to speak to you. i had meetings

we are very proud to have michael adler on the podium here is a senior scholar at the wilson center. michael was the correspondent in vienna covering the iaea for years. michael will moderate today's session. digi amano is here to help us understand the iaea, help us understand how it is helping preserve the nuclear nonproliferation treaty's grand bargain. he is uniquely qualified to do so. his career spans 36 years in the japanese foreign ministry, and he has served with the iaea since the 1990's. he played a key role in securing an agreement should to -- to shut down chernobyl's unit number three as chair of the g7 nuclear safety roup in the year 2000 -- group in the year 2000. please join me in welcoming director general amano. director general amano will speak briefly, and then michael adler will have a dialogue for our guest, preserving have the time for your questions. thank you for coming to the wilson center this morning. director general? [applause] >> good morning, everyone. it is a great pleasure to me to be invited and given the opportunity to speak to you. i had meetings

proud to have michael adler on the program as the senior scholar. covering thenna iaea for years. he is now writing a book on the negotiations. dj amano is here to help us understand the -- help us understand how the iaea is helping to reserve the nuclear treaties grand bargain. years in theans 36 japanese foreign ministry, and he has served with the iaea since the 1990's. a key role in securing an agreement to shut down turn nobles unit number three, as chair of the g7 nuclear safety group in the year 2000. he was chair of the iaea board of governors when the agency won the nobel peace prize in 2005. welcomingn me in director amano. he will speak briefly, and then michael adler will have a dialogue with our guest for or 20 minutes, preserving half the time for your questions. thank you for coming to the wilson center this morning. director general. [applause] morning everyone. me toa great leisure for be invited and given the opportunity to speak to you. some highings with u.s. officials yesterday, and today i am delighted to meet michael again, whom i know very well. passed sinc

we are very proud to have michael adler on the podium here is a senior scholar at the wilson center. the correspondent in ea for covering the ia years. michael will moderate today's session. is here to help us understand the iaea, help us understand how it is helping preserve the nuclear nonproliferation treaty's grand bargain. he is uniquely qualified to do so. his career spans 36 years in the japanese foreign ministry, and he has served with the iaea since the 1990's. he played a key role in securing an agreement should to -- to shut down chernobyl's unit number three as chair of the g7 nuclear safety roup in the year 2000 -- group in the year 2000. please join me in welcoming director general amano. amano willneral speak briefly, and then michael adler will have a dialogue for our guest, preserving have the time for your questions. thank you for coming to the wilson center this morning. director general? [applause] good morning, everyone. me toa great pleasure to be invited and given the opportunity to speak to you. i had meetings with some high u.s. officials yesterday, and meet i

after a conference since the election of president rouhani. .ou have let us ask questions there is michael adler who considered -- contribute so much, right? understand sound policy choices. i want to thank you and remind everyone that one president wilson except that the nobel letter,ize in 1919 by he wrote that the cause of peace will be a continuing labor. almost 100 years later, the cause of peace is a continuing labor and a reason that i hope we will make progress. under very iaea strong leadership, your leadership, thank you and thank you all for coming. [applause] >> this concludes our program. thank you to the inspector general for coming. it was a great religion. was a greatn -- it pleasure. great session. here.e a press conference the press could come forward. thank you very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> thank you. i'm from japan. korea, howl on north as inspector going back to pyongyang? on -- one question more question on [indiscernible] and investigating contaminated water? thank you. >> rega