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Spaniard knocked out at start of IAEA vote
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A Spanish nuclear power expert was knocked out in an initial round of voting for a new chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday, narrowing the field to two IAEA diplomats, officials said.
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Japanese Yukiya Amano established himself as front-runner but failed to score the two-thirds majority required for victory in the UN nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors. But his chances will improve with Spain's Luis Echavarri eliminated. Amano, Japan's ambassador to the Vienna-based IAEA, took 20 votes, his South African counterpart Abdul Samad Minty 10 votes with Echavarri, who heads the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's nuclear branch, getting five. The governing body of the International Atomic Energy Agency has been struggling for months to agree on a new chief to tackle the spread of nuclear arms capability, with North Korea and Iran atop its list of concerns.
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