Cuban parliament condemns Cuba’s inclusion on US List of states sponsoring terrorism
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- 01 / 12 / 2010
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A statement issued on Monday by the Foreign Relations Commission reads that the Cuban people have rejected a recent decision by the US Security Transportation Administration (TSA) to carry out more rigorous screening – including full-body pat-downs, body scans and hands-on luggage inspection – to all passengers with passports from, or itineraries through “state sponsors of terrorism and countries of interest”, including Cuba.
The note recalls that the world public opinion has also rejected this absurd allegation because they know that Cuba has traditionally been a victim of a terrorist policy carried out for almost half a century by almost a dozen US administrations that includes actions such as the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and assassination attempts on the life of Cuban leader Fidel Castro that were publicly acknowledged by the US President and Congress, respectively.
The declaration adds that US terrorist attacks against Cuba have left 3,478 people dead and 2,099 disabled. “The list of attacks is long and the cruellest one was the first mid-air blowing up of a civil airliner in the Western Hemisphere, whose masterminds – Orlando Bosch Avila and Luis Posada Carriles – live as free men in Miami,” the text reads.
It explains that Washington’s complicity with this crime and many others, as well as its disrespect of international obligations in the fight against terrorism deprive the US Government of any moral authority or right to judge anybody.
“This double standard shows in the case of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters who remain imprisoned in US jails for fighting terrorism; a process that has lasted more than a decade and in which the defendants and their families have received an extremely cruel treatment,” the statement stresses.
On the other hand, the document points out, Cuba has strictly complied with all the UN Security Council regulations in this respect and has actively and systematically cooperated in the international fight against terrorism, even with the US Government.
The declaration recalls that 123 countries have embassies in Cuba. It notes that 41 heads of state and government as well as 28 foreign ministers carried out official visits to Cuba in 2009 and that 43 foreign ministers were in the island to prepare the Summit of the Non Aligned Movement.
“This decision by the US Government has a political character; it lacks any foundation and it aims at justifying its blockade against Cuba, which the international community overwhelmingly rejects,” the document reads.
Source: ACN
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