Gottemoeller, Creedon to Meet With Vatican Officials

Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, is embarking on a nine-day trip to Europe, starting today with a two-day stay at the Holy See and Italy to discuss arms control and nonproliferation issues, including the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference starting later this month, according to a State Department announcement yesterday. There, Madelyn Creedon, Principal Deputy Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, will join Gottemoeller in meeting with officials from the Holy See’s Secretariat of State, Pontifical Academies for Science and Social Science and Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, State Department spokesperson Alex Bell wrote to NS&D Monitor in an email. Gottemoeller and Creedon will also meet with Italian Under Secretary of State Benedetto Della Vedova at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome to discuss international security. On April 10, the two U.S. officials will join an NPT RevCon roundtable discussion at the Istituto per gli Affari Internazionali. Gottemoeller will round out her trip by traveling to Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.