(Source: UN - United Nations) Ahead of an open debate on keeping weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists and other non-State groups, the Security Council called today for intensified efforts to ensure the development of a secure international framework for that purpose in the face rapid technological advances and increasingly ambitious malefactors. Unanimously adopting resolution 2325 (2016), the Council called on all States to strengthen national anti-proliferation regimes in implementation of resolution 1540 (2004) - which seeks to keep non-State actors from acquiring nuclear, biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction - and to submit timely reports on their...
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