The Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejects in the strongest terms the slanderous reference against Cuba by the U.S. State Department in its most recent report on terrorism, corresponding to the year 2022, released on November 30, 2023.

The elements exposed in the aforementioned report dishonestly recycle the pretexts used to justify the presence of Cuba on the arbitrary and discredited list published by that Department on States that allegedly sponsor terrorism, and which serves to impose economic coercion measures against countries with which the U.S. government has political discrepancies. This arbitrary classification of Cuba is overwhelmingly rejected at the international level and by numerous political and social organizations within the United States itself.

U.S. government authorities, especially its law enforcement agencies, have more than enough information to confirm Cuba’s firm and clean commitment to confront this scourge.

Official bilateral exchanges between the two countries on the specific issue of terrorism confirm 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 perpetrated, whatever their motivations, including those in which governments are directly or indirectly involved.

Cuba will maintain its efforts in the fight against terrorism, of which it has been a victim, at the cost of 3478 deaths and 2099 disabled, all as a consequence of actions organized, financed and perpetrated fundamentally from the territory of the United States by individuals and organizations that operate there with the tolerance, complicity and protection of the government of that country.

Havana, December 2, 2023

(Taken from Cubaminrex)