Kuala Lampur, June 10 -- During the landmark Atoms for Peace Address by US President Eisenhower at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 8 December 1953, he proposed establishing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The IAEA underlined that the ideas President Eisenhower expressed in his speech in 1953 helped shape the IAEA's Statute, which 81 nations unanimously approved in October 1956.

The US ratification of the Statute by President Eisenhower on 29 July 1957 marks the official birth of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The Agency was set up as the world's "Atoms for Peace" organisation within the United Nations family. From the beginning, it was given the mandate to work with its Member States and mul...