Security Council says states must scrap nuclear weapons

THE UN Security Council, at a summit chaired by US President Barack Obama, unanimously approved a resolution yesterday calling on nuclear weapons states to scrap their arsenals.

Obama presided over the meeting at UN headquarters in Manhattan, the first time a US president has chaired a Security Council summit since it was formed in 1946.

It was only the fifth time the Security Council has met at the level of heads of state and government and the first to focus exclusively on nuclear proliferation and disarmament.