INMM Panel Discussion in Recognition of Twenty-five Years of MSSP

January 2002 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of Member State Support Programs (MSSPs) in support of the International Atomic Energy Agency's Department of Safeguards. Over the past twenty-five years, more than seventeen member states have established MSSPs and contributed extrabudgetary resources to increase the effectiveness and improve the efficiency of IAEA safeguards. During the 2001 INMM Annual Meeting, two special sessions were organized to recognize the contributions of the MSSPs over the last twenty-five years. The first session featured seven papers on MSSP efforts in specific technical areas. The second session included papers on the administration of several of the MSSPs and a panel discussion in which MSSP representatives discussed their views on the contributions made to safeguards in the past and the challenges facing the MSSPs and the IAEA in the future. This paper provides a summary of the panel discussions and the issues it addressed.