Cuba determined to protect the layer of ozone

In greeting to the World Day for the Protection of the Layer of Ozone that takes place this day, Cuba suppressed the imports of chlorfluorocarbons (CFC) and of methyl bromide, highly polluting substances.

The success facilitates to reduce in a gradual way and to eliminate harmful substances to the environment, Susan McDade asserted, representative resident of the Program of the United Nations for the Development (UNDP) in the Island who congratulated the administration of organisms and of 19 companies highlighted in this activity.

In the national act for the date, were stimulated by the Technical Office of the Ozone the ministries of the Revolutionary Armed forces, of the Interior, Agriculture, of the Nutritious Industry and of the Interior Trade.

The presentation of the book was among the activities made by the occasion "to Save the shield of the life" and of the multimedia "Cuba: to 20 years of the Protocol of Montreal."

This document was subscribed in that Canadian city by 24 nations, September 16 1987.

At the moment, it includes to 195 States, under the auspices of the Program of United Nations for the Environment (PNUMA).

The Protocol of Montreal controls 100 exhausting substances of the layer of ozone that have caused a hole in the Antarctica of 29 million square kilometers.(William Fernández )