UN Calls for Diverting Weapons Budgets to Economic Development

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–19 April 2010 – The General Assembly today held a day-long debate on disarmament with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling on the world to reverse its spending on weapons as compared with development.

“The world is over-armed, and development is under-funded,” he toldthe 192-member Assembly at the start of the thematic debate on disarmament and world security, and both the role of the United Nations and challenges for the international community. “Spending on…