187 



TABLE lll.-U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, CALENDAR YEARS 



1960-73 



[In thousands of dollars] 



Regular budget (assessed) Special programs (voluntary) 

 Year 



I960.... 



1961 



1952 



1963.. 



1964 



1965 



1966.... : 



1967 



1968 _ 



196S 



1970 



1971... 



1972 (estimate) _ _. 



1973 (proposed). _ 



SOURCES 



1960-70 information from statement of Samuel de Palma, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization 

 Affairs. In U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Government Operations, "Economy and Efficiency of U.S. Participation in 

 International Organizations," 91st Cong., 2d sess., 1970, pp. 15-17. 



1971-73 information on regular budgrtfrnro In'erns'ional Atomic Energy Agency, "The Agency's Programme for 1973-78 

 end Budget for 1973," IAEA document GC(XVI)/485, 1972, pp. 13, 15, 203. 



Energy Agency, "Scale of Members' Contributions for 1973," 1972, IAEA report GC(XVI) 486, p. 4. 



1971-73 Information on voluntary contributions from U.S. Congress Senate, Committee on Appropriations, 

 "Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriation Bill, 1973," 92d Cong., 2d sess., 1972, Senate report 

 92— 12 jl , p. 43, and also personal inquiry of the Department of State. 



NOTE: Because the Ag3ncy uses a revolving fund, the budget figures shown are not always the same as 

 those in other IAEA or other U.S. documents. 



A HARDHEADED APPROACH TO IAEA FUNCTIONS 



The Joint Committee's 1959 inquiry into the agreement between 

 the AEC and the International Agency gave the AEC an opportunity 

 to enlarge upon its explanation of the concept of what the IAEA 

 should be doing. Commissioner Harold S. Vance of the AEC, after 

 arguing against a nuclear-materials supply role or a role in demon- 

 stration of nuclear power for the IAEA, asserted there were many 

 other tilings for it to do. 120 



. . . There are problems that do not respect national boundaries in the field of 

 health, safety, safeguards, waste disposal and so forth. I believe that if the 

 Agency will address itself to those problems and do it a little more vigorously 

 and forget this business of trying to be a broker for fuel, that in the long run 

 they will be a lot more productive than they would otherwise. 



He proposed four unique services for IAEA : 121 



(1) Resolution of problems of health and safety which tran- 

 scend national borders; 



(2) Creation of international security safeguards and controls 

 over worldwide usage of fissionable materials ; 



(3) Expansion of East-West cooperation in peaceful uses of 

 atomic energy; and 



(4) Pooling of resources to meet the technical assistance needs 

 of underdeveloped countries. 



la U.S., Congress, Jo:nt Committee on Atomic Energy, Hearing, Agreement for Coopera- 

 tion Between the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency, 86th Cong., 



121 Ibid., p. 28. 



