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</font><h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Firm, Absolute Condemnation of Fraudulent Qualification of Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism</h1>Statement from Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs</div><div class="gmail-content"><div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div id="gmail-wrapper2">
<p>January 12, 2021</p>
<div id="gmail-attachment_16486" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><a href="https://i2.wp.com/www.resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1-13-cuba-minrex-scaled.jpg?ssl=1"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1-13-cuba-minrex-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1" alt="" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="425" height="283"></a></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-16486" class="gmail-wp-caption-text">Photo: Bill Hackwell</p></div>
<p>The Ministry of Foreign Relations of Cuba condemns in the strongest and most absolute terms the fraudulent qualification of<span id="gmail-more-16481"></span> Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, announced by the United States government in a cynical and hypocritical act.</p>
<p>For months now, there has been speculation about the possibility of
including Cuba in the State Department’s unilateral list that
categorizes countries, without any authority or legitimacy, lacking
genuine motivation, referring to terrorism and its consequences, and as
an instrument of defamation to justify coercive economic measures
against nations that resist bowing to the whims of U.S. imperialism.</p>
<p>The announcement made by Secretary of State Michael Pompeo is a
superb act by a government that is discredited, dishonest and morally
bankrupt. It is known, without a doubt, that the true motivation for
this action is to impose additional obstacles to any prospect of
recovery in the bilateral relations between Cuba and the United States.</p>
<p>Cuba is not a state sponsor of terrorism, a truth recognized by all.
The official and well-known policy, and the impeccable conduct of our
country, is the rejection of terrorism in all its forms and
manifestations, particularly state terrorism, by whomever, against
whomever and wherever it is committed.</p>
<p>Cuba is a victim of state terrorism and our population has suffered
it firsthand, at the cost of 3,478 fatalities and 2,099 disabling
injuries, due to acts committed by the United States government or
perpetrated and sponsored from the country’s territory, with the
tolerance of official authorities. Cubans repudiate with contempt any
maneuver meant to manipulate such a sensitive issue, for crude purposes
of political opportunism.</p>
<p>Havana, January 11, 2021</p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.minrex.gob.cu/en/firm-and-absolute-condemnation-fraudulent-designation-cuba-state-sponsors-terrorism">Minrex</a></p>
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