Monday, 18 March 2013

“WHO is subordinate to IAEA” by Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima, a former Director-General of WHO



Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima, a former Director-General of WHO wanted the world to know truth of Chernobyl disaster by organizing in Geneva an international conference with 700 experts and physicians in1995. This tentative was blocked. The International Agency for Atomic Energy blocked the proceedings which were never published.  The truth on the consequences of Chernobyl would have been a disaster for the promotion of the atomic industry.”  He tried it again at International Congress in Kiev on 4th of June in 2001, but it became impossible.  Dr. Nakajima died on 26th of January, 2013 after a short illness in Poitiers, France.  He was 84.  He was used to be the only one who clearly admitted WHO is actually subordinated to IAEA. We would like to remember his words:
These conversations are between Dr. Nakajima and Dr. Fernex, a Swiss medical Doctor and a member of IPPN (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
F:  Why were the proceedings we had ordered not published? 
N: Because it was a conference organized jointly with the IAEA. This was the problem. 
F:  Is this WHO conference here more free than in Geneva? 
N:  Here, I am no more Director General, I am a private person.    
F:  Don’t you think that the link between WHO and IAEA impaired the liberty of WHO?
N:  I was Director General and I was responsible.  But it’s mainly my legal department because the IAEA reports directly to the Security Council of the UN.  And we, all specialized agencies, report to the Economic and Social Development Council.  The Organization which reports to the Security Council. – Not hierarchically, we are all equal.  But for atomic affairs military use and civil use peaceful or civil use, they have the authority.  They command…

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