Council Extends Mandate of WMD Non-Proliferation Committee
Néstor Osorio (left), Permanent Representative of Colombia to the UN and President of the Security Council for April, chairs a meeting of the Council at which Members unanimously adopted resolution 1977 (2011), extending for 10 years the mandate of the so-called 1540 Committee, responsible for monitoring efforts to prevent the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by terrorists and other non-State actors.