Cuba appreciates the recent statements by the spokesman for the UN Secretary General, Stéphane Dujarric, about the unjustified inclusion of the island in the list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism, highlighted Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs pointed out on the social network X that Dujarric’s words are part of the truth known to the entire international community and that the United States intends to ignore.
In response to a question from Prensa Latina, the spokesperson commented that the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, appreciates Cuba’s efforts in mediation processes, considering its permanence on the list of nations that supposedly sponsor terrorism contradictory.
“That is not the kind of behavior one would expect from countries accused of sponsoring terrorism,” he said.
Likewise, he praised the work of the Caribbean nation in mediation processes, particularly its efforts for peace in Colombia.
The Caribbean nation was first placed on the State Department’s list of sponsors of terrorism during President Ronald Reagan’s administration in 1982.
In 2015, then-President Barack Obama deemed the designation to be without merit in the island’s case and withdrew it.
But Donald Trump reinstated it in January 2021 a few days before leaving the White House, something that his Democratic successor, Joe Biden, maintains, despite the demand that he rectify that position in his policy towards the Caribbean nation.
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