Brian Bradley
NS&D Monitor
4/10/2015
Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, joined Madelyn Creedon, Principal Deputy Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, April 9 for the first part of a two-day trip to Vatican City and Italy to discuss arms control and nonproliferation issues, including the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference starting April 27, according to an April 8 State Department announcement. The trip entails visits 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. Today, the two U.S. officials will join an NPT RevCon roundtable discussion at the Istituto per gli Affari Internazionali.
On April 13, Gottemoeller will lead the U.S. Delegation to the U.S.-Poland Strategic Cooperation Consultative Group in Warsaw, where the group will discuss regional security challenges, arms control, nonproliferation and bilateral security cooperation. From April 14-17, Gottemoeller will travel to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to talk about international security, regional security challenges, arms control, nonproliferation, NATO and bilateral security cooperation issues. The travel is Gottemoeller’s first publicly announced trip since March, when she discussed international security issues with New Zealand government officials in Wellington.
