SLIPCHENKO Victor, Consultant, Center for Energy and Security Studies (CENESS), Russian Federation
Mr. Victor Slipchenko entered Soviet
Union and later Russian
Federation diplomatic service in 1968 upon
graduation from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Over
more than 40 years of diplomatic service, Mr. Slipchenko had acquired vast
experience in negotiation and implementation of arms control and disarmament
agreements. In particular, Mr. Slipchenko was an active participant in the trilateral
negotiations on a comprehensive nuclear test ban in the late 1970s and
bilateral talks with the United
States on the TTBT Verification Protocol in
the 1980s. Through his eleven-year service in the United Nations Secretariat,
in particular in the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs, he had acquired
experience in arms control administration and management in an international
organization. From 2005 to 2009, he had served as expert of the UN Security
Council's Committee 1540 on non-proliferation. Mr. Slipchenko retired from his
country's foreign service with a diplomatic rank of Minister Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary. Mr. Slipchenko had participated in
many international seminars and conferences on arms control and security issues
and published numerous articles on these subjects both in Russia and
abroad. In 2009, he authored a book entitled ‘One Life of a Disarmament
Diplomat'.
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