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Cuba Condemns Washington’s Double Standards on Terrorism

CUBA, May11, 2010. Cuba’s permanent representative at the United Nations, Pedro Nuñez Mosquera, condemned the US government on Tuesday in that forum, for keeping the island on the list of countries supporting terrorism.

The Cuban representative recalled that, over the last 51 years, Washington has been involved in repeated terrorist actions against the Caribbean island, killing 3,478 people and disabling another 2,099, and causing material losses worth over 54 billion dollars.

He added that the unilateral production by the United States of lists accusing other countries as supposed supporters of terrorism is incompatible with International Law and the UN resolutions, the Prensa Latina news agency reports.

Nuñez Mosquera denounced the double standards of the US government, which thinks it has the right to certify the behavior of other nations in terms of terrorism, while it doesn’t trial confessed criminals who have committed horrible acts of terrorism against Cuba.

In this regard, he mentioned the case of well-known international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, whom the US authorities refuse to condemn for his crimes. He also demanded the US administration the release of the five Cuban antiterrorists it has maintained as political prisoners in high security jails for over 11 years now.

The diplomat called to put an end to the economic blockade imposed on the island for over 50 years now and added that the United States should stop using the issue of terrorism with political purposes.

Cuba condemns all acts, methods and practices of terrorism in all of its forms and expressions, wherever they’re committed and whoever commits them, whoever they’re committed against, and whichever their motivations may be, he underlined. (Cubaminrex- ACN)

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