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While the United States and other IAEA major donor countries believe that applying safeguards is IAEA's most important function, most developing countries believe that receiving technical assistance through IAEA's technical cooperation program is just as important. The United States and other major donors principally participate in the program to help ensure that the member states fully support IAEA's safeguards and the 1970 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. In the past, the United States and other major donors raised concerns about the effectiveness and efficiency of the technical cooperation program.4 For example, the United States expressed concern that some technical assistance projects were devoid of significant technical, health, or socioeconomic benefit to the recipient country.