The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began a five-day conference in Vienna on Monday, bringing together delegations from more than 170 countries, including Croatia, to discuss the promotion of nuclear energy use for peacetime purposes.

The Croatian delegation is led by Assistant Interior Minister Damir Trut, who said Croatia’s cooperation with the IAEA was excellent.

“Croatia fully supports IAEA activities and its attempts to meet the commitments from the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) and the use of atomic energy for peacetime purposes and development. Croatia is also an active participant its technical cooperation programmes,” he said on the fringes of the conference.

As of this year, the Croatian Interior Ministry’s Civil Protection Directorate’s Radiology and Nuclear Security Sector is in charge of nuclear security issues and technical cooperation with the IAEA, Trut said.

The 63rd IAEA annual conference will also address climate change, nuclear technology and cancer prevention.