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The 2009 °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization Annual Report is now available. The year's accomplishments, the status of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ licensing and construction, organizational milestones, and financial and staffing statistics are all included in the report, which can be downloaded .

 

In his foreword, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Director-General Kaname Ikeda writes: "In 2009 the governments of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Members unanimously maintained their support for the project, in what was a difficult global financial context. Our international collaboration has withstood, and even emerged reinforced thanks to increased expertise at the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization and improved collaboration with the Domestic Agencies."

 

"°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ is now poised at the start of construction and installation," declares the Chair of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Council through 31 December 2009, Chris Llewellyn Smith. "The volume will [now] be turned up. The gentle tone of discussion and planning will suddenly be transformed into the roar of excavators and the churning of concrete mixers. It has been a long time coming ..."