Cuban permanent representative to the United Nations Pedro Luis Pedroso once again reaffirmed his government rejects terrorist actions in all its forms, particularly State terrorism that still persists against several countries globally.
Addressing the Security Council on this serious matter, Pedroso spoke of negative consequences terrorist attacks organized from the United States have had on the Cuban people.
The attacks by members of the extreme rightwing Cuban-American terrorist organizations, backed by the US Government, have killed 3,478 Cubans and 2,099 other people have been maimed for life, the diplomat said on Tuesday.
Pedroso also explained that the Cuban Constitution reaffirms one of the foreign policy principles in Cuba, the repudiation and condemnation of terrorism in all its forms, particularly State terrorism.
Pedroso also rejected the inclusion of Cuba in the unilateral list of countries that supposedly sponsor terrorism, drawn up by the US Department of State.
According to Pedroso, this is a personal campaign by outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his discredited foreign policy.
About this issue, the Cuban ambassador urged the United Nations to speak out against such unilateral lists and certifications, politically manipulated and contrary to International Law, which only serves the purposes of defamation and coercion against countries that refuse to comply, in their sovereign decisions, with the will of the US Government.
Public personalities worldwide have condemned the inclusion of Cuba in Washington’s unilateral list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
With this kind of blacklists, the US Government seeks that third countries cut commercial and financial relations with the island, thus hardening the blockade against Cuba. (PL)
Declaration of The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba condemns, in the strongest and most absolute terms, the fraudulent designation of Cuba as a State that sponsors terrorism which, in a cynical and hypocritical move, has been announced by the government of the United States.
For some months now, there have been speculations about the possibility of including Cuba in a unilateral list issued by the State Department that designates countries, without having received any mandate or having any legitimacy whatsoever to do that and without having any genuine motivation in relation to terrorism and its sequels, in order to use it as an instrument to denigrate and implement economic coercive measure against other countries that may refuse to indulge the whims of the US imperialism.
The announcement made by Secretary of State Michael Pompeo is an arrogant action by a discredited, dishonest and morally bankrupted government. It is well known –and there is little doubt about it- that the true motivation behind this action is to impose additional obstacles to any prospective restoration of bilateral relations between Cuba and the United States.
Cuba is not a State that sponsors terrorism and this is a truth that has been widely recognized by everybody. Cuba’s official and well-known policy and impeccable behavior has been that of rejecting terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, particularly State terrorism, wherever and by and against whoever committed.
Cuba has been a State victim of terrorism and our people have suffered from it first hand, at the cost of 3 478 fatalities and 2099 persons with disabilities due to the actions carried out by the government of the United States or that have been perpetrated and sponsored from the territory of that country with the acquiescence of the US official authorities. We Cubans disdainfully deplore every maneuver aimed at manipulating such a sensitive issue to achieve gross politically opportunistic goals. (CubaMINREX)
