CUBA’S U.N. AMBASSADOR EXPLAINS--

Why Cuba won't sign test treaty

Recently Cuba abstained from voting on a resolution in the United Na
tions main political committee calling for a nuclear-free zone in Latin

America. . The resolution was carried 89 to O, but 13 other countries also ab-

stained, including the Soviet Union and several socialist countries, and
France, Mali, Tunisia, Algeria and Venezuela.

: Earlier Cuba had stated it would not sign the partial test- ban treaty.
Below are published excerpts from an Oct. 7 speech to he U.N. General As-
sembly by Cuban Ambassador Carlos Lechuga, in which he gave a compre
hensive ouline of his country’s position on the test ban treaty and the pro-

posal for a de-nuclearized Latin America:

We public opinion received,
: with commendation, the news

of the signing of the Treaty of
Moscow on the partial prohibi-
tion of nuclear tests in what
signified a relief for umanity
from the apprehension evoked
by the baneful consequences
which the diffusion of raioactiv-
ity, resulting from such tests,
brings with them, and because
such a treaty represented a mo-
deration of international ten-
sions. Cuba shared this sentiment
with world public opinion.
However, precisely from the
moment of the signing of the
treaty, as we have seen, the gov-
ernment of the United States,
imperialist nuclear power and
co-signer of the treaty, initiates
a new phase of aggression against
Cuba and with acerbity renews
its activities aimed at destroying
the Cuban Revolution, fomenting
all manner of aggressions which,
in contradiction to the peaceful

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ends ordained in the treaty,
heighten the existing tension in
the conditions which gave rise
to the so-called‘‘ October crisis’’
last year—thus threatening world
peace.

Cuba holds in high regard every
success achieved in the rugged
course leading to disarmament.

Cuba endorses the policy of
peace of the the Soviet Union,
which we see fructified in the con-
clusion of the treaty for apartial
nuclear test-ban. Cuba is pre-
pared to contribute whatever ef-
forts would be deemed useful to
the universal cause of peace.

* * *

But Cuba cannot subscribe
to a treaty when one of its signa-
tory powers is, at the sametime,
chief protagonist of a policy of
enmity toward, and a multitude
of offenses against, our country
—which in sum and in truth are
tantamount to undeclared war...

Cuba’s non-adherence to the

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partial test-ban treaty will not
change, naturally, the practical
results of the treaty.

Cuba is not a nuclear power
and lacks the resources to be-
come one, but we feel it to be
our duty, within the United Na-
tions organization, to adopt the
moral position arising from the
inviolable principles of our in-
ternational policy.

The treaty has mobilized the
universal conscience for peace
which demands measures to pro-
tect humanity against war; it
should also demand equal respect
for the integrity and the life of
all countries. Peace must be a
universal boon shared and en-
joyed alike by all peoples of all
countries — be they big or
small:

* * *

For reasons of principle the
Revolutionary government of
Cuba is not opposed to the crea-
tion of de-atomized zones, noris
it adverse to any other measure
which will reduce the possibili-
ties of a nuclear conflagration—
to the unforeseeable consequen-
ces of which were subject our
people and the whole world dur-
ing the past ‘‘October Crisis’’
brought about by the threatened
invasion of our country by the
government of the United States.

The Revolutionary government
of Cuba holds in high esteem
the intent which has inspired
these initiatives by certain chiefs
of state of Latin American -coun-
tries. The Revolutionary govern-.
ment of Cuba has been disposed

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to analyze, with profound inter-
est, the content of such proposals,

However, the Revolutionary
government of Cuba understands
that the efficacy of such initia-
tives is essentially determined by
the scope they might entail with
respect to the uses of nuclear
power in this hemisphere, the
United States,

x* * *

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will not accept any denucleari-
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of the Panama Canal, Puerto Rico
and the various North American
bases on this continent, beyond
its own territory, plus the resti-
tution to Cuba of the portion
of Cuban territory it illegimately
appropriates.

The Revolutionary government
of Cuba favors every effort made
to create a system of world
security, but it considers that the
validity of such asystem depends
upon its being without exceptions
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