“We deserve and need a world of lasting, just and sustainable peace for all, a world free of nuclear weapons for the good of present and future generations,” the minister urged on the occasion of the commemoration of World Day to achieve this desire.

Despite the urgency, the head of Foreign Affairs recalled that there are still 12,000 nuclear warheads worldwide, enough to destroy the planet several times over, while almost four thousand are deployed.

“We cannot forget the disastrous consequences of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States, an expression of an aggressive and hegemonic military and nuclear doctrine of a country that spends much more on weapons than any other and imposes an arms race for the purpose of world domination,” he recalled.

In this regard, he ratified his country’s support for the universalization of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in the face of the absurdity “of a world that squanders exorbitant resources on weapons that it should dedicate to aid for development and the elimination of poverty.”

Rodríguez also recalled that Latin America is the region with the most states parties to this transcendental instrument.

“For our country, this important annual event represents a fair tribute to the memory of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, a tireless fighter in favor of nuclear disarmament, which cannot continue to be a goal that is continually postponed,” he added.

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