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Cuban Parliament Advocates Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

CUBA, July 28, 2011.- The members of the Commission of International Relations of the Cuban National Assembly (Parliament) advocated on Thursday the complete elimination of nuclear weapons, which they regarded —along with climate change— as one of the most serious challenges for humanity.

A statement issued at Havana’s Convention Center by this Commission of the Cuban Parliament urges parliamentarians around the world to back this stance and criticizes the nuclear powers’ lack of political will as they continue to improve and enlarge their nuclear arsenals.

The document rejects the ever-increasing world military expenditure which is estimated to have reached $1.62 trillion in 2010.

“To feed more than 1.2 billion people who starve today, to avoid the death of 11 million children every year, and to fight the extreme poverty in which more than 1.4 billion people live around the world, seem like attainable goals if we could use the resources they earmark today to weapons,” the statement reads.

The twelve standing commissions of the Cuban Parliament are meeting at Havana’s Convention Center on Thursday and Friday prior to the Seventh Ordinary Period of Sessions of the Seventh Legislature of the Cuban Parliament, scheduled for August 1. (Cubaminrex-ACN)

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