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September 25, 2009

UN Security Council OKs Nuclear Proliferation Measure
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The UN Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution to limit
nuclear proliferation. The US-drafted measure calls for further efforts
to achieve “a world without nuclear weapons.” But critics say it fails
to include mandatory provisions that would have required nuclear states
to take concrete disarmament steps. The resolution also lacks any call
on states to halt production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons.
President Obama became the first US president to chair a UN Security
Council summit, which also marked the fifth summit-level meeting of the
council in its sixty-three years of existence.

President Obama: “In the six-plus decades that this Security Council has
been in existence, only four other meetings of this nature have been
convened. I called for this one so that we may address, at the highest
level, a fundamental threat to the security of all peoples and all
nations: the spread and use of nuclear weapons.”



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