[…] An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran’s nuclear activities underscores the country’s continued refusal to comply fully with its international nuclear obligations, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly says, and he expressed doubts that Iran will formally respond to the agency’s offer to allow it to enrich its uranium in another country to provide fuel for a medical-research reactor.

[…] The new phased missile defense plan that President Obama has proposed for Europe is designed to meet a growing threat not only to the United States, but also to allies, Vice President Biden said October 21 in Warsaw, Poland. “We now appreciate that Poland’s government agrees with us that there is now a better way, with new technology and new information to defend against the emerging ballistic missile threats,” Biden said.

[…] Today, I would like to focus my remarks on the contribution the Review Conference can make to our collective efforts to reinvigorate and strengthen the NPT and the international nuclear nonproliferation regime, overall. The global regime has been under great stress in recent years, and strengthening it is an objective that the United States has embraced as one of its highest priorities. The challenges to the regime have never been greater, but neither have been the opportunities to address them.

[…] On October 13, during a trip to Russia, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave an extensive interview with the ABC News program Nightline.
The interview covered a whole range of international issues, as well as Clinton’s working relationship with President Obama and her own political career. The following are excerpts in which Clinton talks about U.S. relations with Russia, cooperation on Iran, and anti-missile defense systems.

[…] The United States and Russia are making progress in replacing a current treaty for reducing nuclear arsenals with one that goes further in physically reducing arsenals and also lessening perceived tensions over nuclear weapons, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says. President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed at a meeting in April to reduce nuclear arsenals well below the levels called for in the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START I.

[…] The meeting between Obama and Medvedev came just hours before a U.N. Security Council resolution endorsing a framework aimed at eliminating nuclear weapons won unanimous approval. U.S. officials see progress on nuclear issues as part of a broader framework for U.S.-Russian cooperation on a wide range of global problems.

[…] I wish to warmly welcome the distinguished heads of state and government, the General -- the Secretary General, the Director General of the IAEA, ministers and other distinguished representatives present in the Security Council chamber. Your presence is an affirmation of the importance of the subject matter to be discussed.

[…] As you know, we just completed an historic summit-level meeting of the United Nations Security Council, in which 15 heads of state and government unanimously adopted a groundbreaking resolution which affirmed their commitment to the goal of a world without nuclear weapons, and established a broad framework for ensuring nuclear safety and security.

[…] In an historic meeting, the United Nations Security Council today convened at the head of state/government level and unanimously cosponsored and adopted a resolution committing to work toward a world without nuclear weapons and endorsing a broad framework of actions to reduce global nuclear dangers.

[…] “We think over the course of the next several weeks, there’s going to be a series of very high-level engagements between North Korea and China,” Campbell said. “During these meetings, we expect China to take a fairly clear line about their desire to see North Korea resume interactions as part of a Six-Party framework.”