UN steps up campaign to contain WMD

The UN Security Council urged countries around the world to implement a UN resolution aimed at keeping nuclear, chemical and biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists.The council unanimously called for full implementation of an April 2004 resolution requiring all 192 UN member states to adopt laws to prevent non-state actors from acquiring weapons of mass destruction.The council urged countries that have not filed a first report on their implementation efforts to do so without delay. It did not say how many countries have filed such reports or identify countries that have not done so.The 2004 resolution, pushed by the United States, requires all countries to adopt laws to prevent non-state actors from manufacturing, acquiring or trafficking in nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, the materials to make them, and the missiles and other systems to deliver them.US Ambassador Susan Rice said the new resolution sharpens the tools of the Security Council committee that has been monitoring the implementation of the 2004 resolution.