“Eighty years after the criminal atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the philosophy of plunder and war persists, along with the risk of the very existence of nuclear weapons,” Rodriguez added at the meeting, held in the context of the High-Level Segment of the 80th Session of the UN General Assembly.

The Cuban minister condemned the Israeli attacks, with the complicity and support of the United States government, against Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities on June 13.

He said that these attacks “flagrantly violate the UN Charter, international law, international humanitarian law, as well as the IAEA safeguards regime, and endanger international peace and security.”

“Cuba condemns these attacks in the strongest possible terms and extends its solidarity to the Iranian government and people,” the foreign minister emphasized.

During his address to the plenary session, Rodriguez argued that US military spending in 2024 was $997 billion, a figure that “would cover a quarter of the $4 trillion annual deficit necessary to advance the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.”

Cuba firmly supports the universalization of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, on the path toward complete, verifiable, irreversible, and transparent nuclear disarmament within the multilaterally agreed timeframes, the foreign minister stated.

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