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Cuba participates in the Eighth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)

 

Cuba is actively participating in the Eighth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons being held at the United Nations headquarters, in New York, on the 3-28 May 2010. Cuba was elected one of the Vice-presidents of the Conference.

Cuba favors an action-oriented Conference achieving, among other results, the adoption of concrete actions aimed at the total elimination and prohibition of nuclear weapons from the face of the earth. 

The following are some of the major positions upheld by Cuba in the Conference:

•           To stress nuclear disarmament as the highest priority in the field of disarmament.

•           To adopt a plan of action to ensure the implementation of NPT provisions, mainly of nuclear disarmament obligations. This plan shall establish a concrete schedule for the gradual reduction of nuclear weapons- in a transparent, irreversible, verifiable, and legally-binding manner- until their complete elimination by 2025.

•           Pending the achievement of nuclear disarmament, to initiate negotiations, on a priority basis, in order to conclude a Global Treaty on universal and unconditional security assurances for non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of such weapons.

•           To defend multilateralism, including the key role of the United Nations, in terms of disarmament, non-proliferation, and arms control, including nuclear weapons.  

•           To promote the creation and consolidation of Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones in different regions of the world, as an important contribution to the efforts in nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. Cuba emphasizes the pressing need to establish a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in the Middle East, in compliance with the resolution adopted in the 1995 Review Conference. This Review Conference must adopt a mechanism to guarantee the implementation of that resolution.

•           The observance, without discrimination, of the three pillars of the NPT, including the inalienable right of the States Parties to the Treaty to peacefully research, produce, and use nuclear technology. Free peaceful transfer of nuclear technology, without politically-motivated obstacles or exclusions, must be fully guaranteed.

Cuba is State Party to the NPT since 4 November 2002 and, on the occasion of this Review Conference, has submitted a national report reflecting its full and transparent compliance with the commitments undertaken by acceding to the Treaty.

Cuba will contribute, in every possible way, through concrete proposals, and in a spirit of cooperation, to the success of the Eighth NPT Review Conference. 

New York, 7 May 2010.

(Cubaminrex- Embacuba ONU)