NEW YORK, Sept. 22 -- The U.S. Mission to the United Nations issued the following transcript of an interviews by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield with Laura Trevelyan on BBC World News America:

QUESTION: And who better for us to discuss this with than America's chief diplomat here at the United Nations - that is, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield - who of course has a very busy week this week, and she's here in New York and she joins us now.