President Higgins: 'Arms race' by members of UN Security Council will 'fuel current and future wars'

President Michael D Higgins has warned that new arms race by permanent members of UN Security Council will fuel current and future wars.

In a speech at Concern Worldwide’s 50th-anniversary conference at Dublin Castle today, President Higgins spoke of the role of UN members in the new “arms race,” where “the arms industry now exports weapons of death and destruction for use in Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Yemen.”