UNITED NATIONS, New York.- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez underlined today in a high-level plenary in the United Nations that Cuba maintains a strong commitment to the Treaty of Tlatecolco against nuclear weapons.
Diaz-Canel warned that 73 years after the atomic bombardments against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, mankind remains threatened by the existence of approximately 14 thousand 400 nuclear weapons, and almost two thousand are in operational alert.
After evoking Fidel Castro, who was a champion in the fight for nuclear disarmament, the Cuban President used a quote from the leader of the Revolution to condemn the use of atomic armament.
Coexistence in the World Is in Jeopardy
At the high-level meeting of the UN General assembly on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, President Miguel Miguel Diaz-Canel warned of the dangers that preying on world peace.
We reaffirm the right to peaceful use of nuclear energy without discrimination. We reject the US government’s decision to withdraw from the joint comprehensive action plan with Iran, the Cuban dignitary said.
Non-observance of these international commitments, he added, is against the rules of coexistence between States and will cause serious consequences for stability in the Middle East.
Diaz-Canel reminded Army General Raul Castro when he said at the Rio+20 Summit, Let us leave justifications and selfishness and seek solutions. This time everyone, absolutely everyone, will pay the consequences. Cease the plunder, cease the war.
Resuming Dialogue on Denuclearization Is Essential
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, called for renewing the commitment to denuclearization and to resume a dialogue about it in order to achieve a world free of these dangerous artifacts.
In intervening at the high-level meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, the UN top leader warned of the threat posed by these devices for human security.
The President of the General Assembly at its 73-year session, Maria Fernanda Espinosa, reaffirmed that achieving a world free of nuclear weapons is a universal aspiration and an interest of all.
He pointed out that hopefully meetings such as these would allow them to exchange views on that objective, and then indicated that fourteen thousand 400 nuclear weapons are now accumulating all over the planet.