Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The State Department strongly rejects the defamatory reference made against Cuba by the US State Department in its latest report on terrorism covering 2022 and published on November 30, 2023.
The elements revealed in the above-mentioned report dishonestly repeat the pretexts used to justify the presence of Cuba in the arbitrary and discredited list published by the US State Department, which allegedly supports terrorism and which serves to impose economic coercion against countries to enforce the United States cooperates with the state government has political differences. This arbitrary classification of Cuba is met with overwhelming rejection at the international level and by numerous political and social organizations in the United States itself.
U.S. government agencies, particularly their law enforcement-related agencies, have more than enough information to confirm Cuba’s firm and clear commitment to combating this scourge. The official bilateral exchange between the two countries on the specific topic of terrorism confirms this. Cuba’s commitment is absolute and categorical against all terrorist acts, methods and practices in all their forms and manifestations, by whomever, against whomever and wherever they are committed, regardless of their motives, including those in which governments are directly or indirectly involved are.
Cuba will continue its efforts in the fight against terrorism of which it has become a victim, causing 3,478 deaths and 2,099 people with disabilities, all as a result of actions organized, financed and carried out essentially from the territory of the United States individuals and organizations there. They operate with the tolerance, complicity and protection of that country’s government.
Havana, December 2, 2023
(Cubaminrex)