IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano delivered a statement to the Agency's Board of Governors on 6 June?2016.
He said good progress has been made in raising funds for the renovation of the Agency's nuclear applications laboratories, which will enable the start of construction on facilities including a new Insect Pest Control Laboratory.
The Board, which meets five times a year at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria, is one of the IAEA's main policymaking bodies.