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Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security

The Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, John R. Bolton, serves as Senior Adviser to the President and the Secretary of State for Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament. In this capacity, the Under Secretary attends and participates, at the direction of the President, in National Security Council (NSC) and subordinate meetings pertaining to arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament and has the right to communicate, through the Secretary of State, with the President and members of the NSC on arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament concerns.

The Under Secretary leads the interagency policy process on nonproliferation and manages global U.S. security policy, principally in the areas of nonproliferation, arms control, regional security and defense relations, and arms transfers and security assistance. The Under Secretary provides policy direction in the following areas: nonproliferation, including the missile and nuclear areas, as well as chemical, biological, and conventional weapons proliferation; arms control, including negotiation, ratification, verification and compliance, and implementation of agreements on strategic, non-conventional, and conventional forces; regional security and defense relations, involving policy regarding U.S. security commitments worldwide as well as on the use of U.S. military forces in unilateral or international peacekeeping roles; and arms transfers and security assistance programs and arms transfer policies. By delegation from the Secretary, the Under Secretary performs a range of functions under the Foreign Assistance Act, Arms Export Control Act, and related legislation. The Bureaus of Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Political-Military Affairs are under the policy oversight of the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security. By statute, the Assistant Secretary for Verification and Compliance reports to the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security.

  
Highlights
The Role of the PSI
Under Secretary Bolton's speech on "Stopping the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Asian-Pacific Region." Also see fact sheet on PSI maritime interdiction training exercise, Team Samurai.

The Bush Administration's Forward Strategy For Nonproliferation
Under Secretary Bolton's remarks to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.

G-8 Senior Group Meeting
Press Conference with Under Secretary Bolton at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.

An All-out War on Proliferation
Op-Ed by Under Secretary Bolton featured in the Financial Times.

Preventing Iran from Acquiring Nuclear Weapons
Under Secretary Bolton's remarks to the Hudson Institute.

  
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