The Communist Youth Federation of Sri Lanka condemns the decision of the US government to keep Cuba on the List of countries that “sponsor terrorism”.
Although Cuba does not appear on the current list of countries that “do not fully cooperate with US counter-terrorism efforts in the year 2023” contained in US Secretary of State Blinken’s report to Congress, Cuba remains on the existing US list of states that sponsor terrorism. While Cuba does not support terrorism in any way, but is itself a victim of economic and other terrorism organized by the United States.
The US decision to place and then to keep Cuba serves as a pretext for the adoption of measures that greatly affect the Cuban people, including Cubans residing abroad, and that are added to those already existing due to the economic, commercial and financial blockade.
The U.S. government has no legitimacy to draw up lists of "sponsors of terrorism." In recent history, the United States has invaded countries, bombed civilian populations, even using nuclear bombs, and has made systematic use of practices traditionally associated with terrorism — of which Cuba has been a victim — as well as sponsored and promoted terrorist groups in third countries with the aim of overthrowing governments or generating instability in different regions of the planet. It is unacceptable that an imperialist power with the record of the United States dares to unilaterally and arbitrarily include Cuba in this infamous list.
We demand the remove of Cuba from the harmful list of countries “which sponsor terrorism” and to put an end to the measures that are part of the blockade.
The Communist Youth Federation of Sri Lanka reiterate our solidarity with the Cuban Government, Youth, and People. in their heroic struggle against imperialism.
Weerasumana Weerasinghe Jinendra Saman Peiris
President Secretary