Cuba backs up nuclear weapon erradication at the NPT meeting

United Nations, Nov 27 (Prensa Latina) The danger posed by nuclear weapons can only disappear with their total eradication, in a transparent, verifiable and irreversible manner, Cuba's First Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Peñalver assured on Monday.

November 27, 2023
17:25

Peñalver deemed so at the 2nd Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

This instrument complements the international security, disarmament and non-proliferation architecture, the permanent Cuban Representative to the UN added.

Latin America and the Caribbean, the first Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in a densely populated area, has made the nuclear disarmament a top-priority, the diplomat noted.

Peñalver expressed, “each new State that joins represents a new step forward towards the illegitimating nuclear weapons,” and he reaffirmed his country’s support for efforts aimed at the NPT’s universalization.

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