UN / GOTTEMOELLER

United States Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller who is attending a sideline event on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) at UN headquarters to address the press. UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:36
• Production Date: 11 May 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PEACE AND SECURITY; DISARMAMENT
• Geographic Subject: UNITED STATES; RUSSIAN FEDERATION
• MAMS Id: U100511b

Description

STORY: UN / GOTTEMOELLER
TRT: 1.36
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 11 MAY 2010, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

RECENT 2010, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

11 MAY 2010, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot. Rose Gottemoeller, United States Assistant Secretary of State approaches microphone
3. Cutaway, hands taking notes
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State, United States:
“We have completed all the work that we need to do, frankly it was in record time-getting the treaty, the protocol and the annexes finished. The work in Washington, the additional paperwork that has to be done to put the treaty package together for ratification has been completed, but the treaty is not quite up to the Senate yet. It will be very shortly.”
5. Cutaway, hands taking notes
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State, United States:
“The first priority now is to get the treaty ratified and entered into force so that’s going to take a lot of effort in both Washington and in Moscow as well. But we definitively have in mind moving forward with further reduction negotiations.”
7. Cutaway, hands taking notes
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State, United States:
“As far as Iran is concerned of course there is no direct link between the negotiation of this treaty and our joint work with the Russians and with the other countries around the world on Iran, but I do feel that the treaty and its conclusion has given a real boost to US-Russian relations overall and so there is kind of a positive effect on other important work that we are doing with the Russian Federation, including our important work with them on Iran.”
9. Cutaway, hands taking notes
10. Wide shot, Rose Gottemoeller leaves microphone behind

Storyline

The United States (US) Assistant Secretary of State briefed journalists at the United Nations on the new US and the Russian Federation Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

Rose Gottemoeller, who was also the chief negotiator of the new treaty signed on the 8th of April in Vienna, said that the work had been completed in record time. She added that although the additional paperwork for the treaty ratification had been completed, it was “not quite up to the Senate yet.”

Responding to whether this treaty would lead to other disarmament agreements, Gottemoeller said that the US definitively had in mind moving toward further reductions, but that the priority right now was to get the treaty ratified and entered into force.

Commenting on the possible links between this treaty and Iran’s nuclear issue, Gottemoeller said that as far as Iran was concerned there was no direct link between the two issues. She added that there was “kind of a positive effect” on other important work that the US was doing with the Russian Federation, “including our important work with them on Iran.”