The foreign minister ratified Cuba’s firm position in this regard on Twitter on the occasion of the International Day Against Nuclear Tests.

On August 3rd, Cuba stated at the United Nations (UN) its defense of a world free of the danger that these weapons represent and stressed that political manipulation, selectivity and double standards in non-proliferation must cease.

The only sustainable solution to the existential problem that nuclear weapons represent is their total elimination, said Yuri Gala, deputy permanent representative of Cuba, speaking at the Tenth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

The diplomat lamented the lack of concrete progress in nuclear disarmament, in particular regarding the fulfillment of the obligations and commitments acquired by the nuclear powers 52 years after the entry into force of the treaty.

He pointed out that it is neither fair nor acceptable that a group of signatory States strictly complies with all the obligations of the NPT while others do not.

Nor is it that certain countries are condemned and demonized for alleged violations of the non-proliferation regime by the same States that continue perfecting their nuclear arsenals, supplying and transferring technologies, said the Cuban ambassador.

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