US envoy to hold talks in Netherlands, Israel, Cyprus

US Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller will travel to the Netherlands, Israel and Cyprus from Monday through Saturday, the State Department announced on Sunday. She will join Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday and Tuesday for meetings at the Third Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, Netherlands.On Wednesday and Thursday, Gottemoeller will meet with Israeli counterparts, including several military leaders, to discuss regional security issues, arms control and nonproliferation policy, missile defense cooperation and export control matters, the announcement said.While in Israel, she will head the U.S. delegation to the 43rd Joint Political Military Group, one of several long-standing bilateral security discussions, it said. She will also receive field briefings regarding how the Israeli government addresses its current security challenges, it said. On Friday, Gottemoeller will travel to Nicosia, Cyprus, to meet with President Nicos Anastasiades and other Cypriot counterparts to discuss bilateral cooperation on a range of regional security and political-military issues, the announcement said. She will also meet with Sigrid Kaag, the special coordinator of the OPCW-UN Joint Mission on eliminating Syria's chemical weapons program, as well as other officials associated with the Syria chemical weapons elimination effort, it said. They will discuss the ongoing process to remove and destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, it said.