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CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT): How to Overcome Sensitivities and Make Progress
Michiru NISHIDA, Special Assistant for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Affairs; Chief of Disarmament Unit, Arms Control and Disarmament Division, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Science Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan Mr. Michiru Nishida is Special Assistant for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA) since 2007. He currently serves as Head of Disarmament Unit in the Arms Control and Disarmament Division since July 2011. Before this current assignment, he served from 2006 as First Secretary to the Delegation of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, mainly in charge of nuclear issues as well as space security issues. He is also Visiting Associate Professor of Research Center for Nuclear Abolition (RECNA) of Nagasaki University. Before being posted to Geneva, Mr. Nishida served as Head of the Export Control Unit of the Non-Proliferation, Science and Nuclear Energy Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was also in charge of NPT, IAEA, MNA (Multilateral Nuclear Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle), PSI (Proliferation Security Initiative), SUA amendment, etc. He was a member of the Japanese delegation to the Six-Party Talks in 2005 on the occasion of agreement on the Joint Statement. He served as Head of the Political Section of the Consulate-General of Japan to Karachi, Pakistan. Record

CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT): How to Overcome Sensitivities and Make Progress

Michiru NISHIDA, Special Assistant for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Affairs; Chief of Disarmament Unit, Arms Control and Disarmament Division, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Science Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

Mr. Michiru Nishida is Special Assistant for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA) since 2007. He currently serves as Head of Disarmament Unit in the Arms Control and Disarmament Division since July 2011. Before this current assignment, he served from 2006 as First Secretary to the Delegation of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, mainly in charge of nuclear issues as well as space security issues. He is also Visiting Associate Professor of Research Center for Nuclear Abolition (RECNA) of Nagasaki University. Before being posted to Geneva, Mr. Nishida served as Head of the Export Control Unit of the Non-Proliferation, Science and Nuclear Energy Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was also in charge of NPT, IAEA, MNA (Multilateral Nuclear Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle), PSI (Proliferation Security Initiative), SUA amendment, etc. He was a member of the Japanese delegation to the Six-Party Talks in 2005 on the occasion of agreement on the Joint Statement. He served as Head of the Political Section of the Consulate-General of Japan to Karachi, Pakistan.

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