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In a statement marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on 26 September 2023, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, noted his country’s ‘active role’ in the elaboration and negotiation of the TPNW – ‘the first international legal norm that categorically prohibits nuclear weapons in all circumstances and provides for their total elimination’. ‘We will continue to support the efforts directed towards the universalisation of the TPNW, convinced that each new State that is incorporated into the same represents a new step of advancement towards the delegitimisation of nuclear weapons,’ he said.[1]

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
20 Sep 2017
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
30 Jan 2018 (Ratification)
ENTRY INTO FORCE
22 Jan 2021
DECLARATION
Received 26 Feb 2021
TPNW Article 1(1) prohibitions: Compliance in 2023
(a) Develop, produce, manufacture, acquire Compliant
Test Compliant
Possess or stockpile Compliant
(b) Transfer Compliant
(c) Receive transfer or control Compliant
(d) Use Compliant
Threaten to use Compliant
(e) Assist, encourage or induce Compliant
(f) Seek or receive assistance Compliant
(g) Allow stationing, installation, deployment Compliant
TPNW voting and participation
UNGA resolution on TPNW (latest vote) Voted yes (2023)
Participated in 2MSP (2023) Yes
1MSP delegation size (% women) 4 (50%)
Adoption of TPNW (7 July 2017) Voted yes
Participated in TPNW negotiations (2017) Yes
Negotiation mandate (A/RES/71/258) Voted yes
Other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) treaties
Party to an NWFZ Yes (Ratified 2002, Tlatelolco)
Party to the NPT Yes (Acceded 2002)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2021)
Party to the BWC Yes (Ratified 1976)
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 1997)
IAEA safeguards and fissile material
Safeguards agreement Yes (3 Jun 2004)
TPNW Art 3(2) deadline N/A
Small Quantities Protocol No
Additional Protocol Yes
Enrichment facilities/reprocessing plants No
HEU stocks No
Plutonium stocks No

Latest developments

Cuba participated in the Second Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW (2MSP) in November and December 2023, where it expressed pride in the fact that Latin America and the Caribbean is the region with the greatest number of States parties. It described the Treaty’s adoption and entry into force as a ‘milestone’ and noted its complementarity with ‘the international architecture of security, disarmament and non-proliferation’.2

Cuba was one of the co-sponsors for the 2023 UN General Assembly resolution on the TPNW, which called upon ‘all States that have not yet done so to sign, ratify, accept, approve or accede to the Treaty at the earliest possible date’.3

Recommendations

  • Cuba should continue to encourage other states to adhere to the TPNW.

  • Cuba should ensure that all the TPNW obligations are implemented domestically, through legal, administrative, and other necessary measures.

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