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Abe Nobuyasu

Director, Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation(CPDNP), Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)

Japan`s Nuclear Crisis (Moderator); Evaluating the 2010 NPT Review Conference

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).