Ten Years after Adoption of Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004), Member States Working Hard to Implement Its Requirements

A decade after the adoption of Security Council resolution 1540 (2004),Governments around the world are working hard to implement its requirements, with Member States having enacted a large number of relevant laws and deployed a wide range of appropriate measures. The resolution’s unanimous adoption, on 28 April 2004, initiated a process by which the United Nations has been addressing the threat that weapons of mass destruction pose to international peace and security. The resolution established a programme of action to prevent non-State actors, terrorists in particular, from proliferating nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their means of delivery.