New York, October 15, 2025. — Ambassador Daylenis Moreno Guerra, Deputy Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, spoke at the First Committee’s General Debate of the 80th session of the General Assembly, where she reaffirmed our country's commitment to general and complete disarmament, international peace, and security.
The diplomat warned that, eight decades after the founding of the UN, wars have multiplied, and recalled that the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki confirms that nuclear disarmament is a matter of survival. She drew the attention to the increase in global military spending, the erosion of disarmament agreements, and Israel's attacks on Gaza and Iran with US support. She also reaffirmed Cuba's support for the Bolivarian government of Venezuela and condemned the US military deployment in the Caribbean, contrary to the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.
She also highlighted the need to universalize the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to achieve concrete results at the next Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. She also advocated for the exclusively peaceful use of cyberspace and outer space, and for the creation of legally binding instruments prohibiting autonomous weapons.
The Ambassador expressed Cuba's support for strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention through specific measures, including legally binding verification mechanisms and full, effective, and non-discriminatory implementation. She rejected selective and politically motivated approaches to the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, as well as the creation of mechanisms that exceed the technical mandate of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. In this context, she denounced the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba as a violation of the provisions on international cooperation in both instruments and a flagrant violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations.
The Cuban diplomat reiterated the demand for the immediate and definitive lifting of this unilateral policy and demanded an end to the covert use of information and communication technologies from US territory to subvert the constitutional order of Cuba and other sovereign states. She concluded by reaffirming the right of peoples to peace, development, and justice, and called for military resources to be allocated to the well-being and progress of humanity.
Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations