Ambassador Abe is currently the director of the Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (CPDNP) at JIIA. He has served as consul-general in Boston, and as ambassador to Austria and Saudi Arabia. Between 2003 and 2006, he was undersecretary-general of the UN for Disarmament Affairs, and was a member of the advisory board to the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND).