Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano narrowly won election on Thursday to become the International Atomic Energy Agency s next director-general, participants in the closed-door vote told Reuters

Amano scored the required 23 majority of IAEA governing board members expressing a preference, with 23 votes and one abstention in the 35-nation meeting, defeating his South African rival Abdul Samad Minty for the post

Amano will replace Mohamed El Baradei as the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, after he steps down from the role in November. El Baradei, an Egyptian diplomat, has been in the job for 12 years and served three terms.

Many nations had wanted an IAEA leader with broad consensus backing to tackle threats to the global nuclear non-proliferation regime.

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