The Special Committee on Decolonization of United Nations adopted a resolution, promoted by Cuba, on the Question of Puerto Rico, reiterating that “Puerto Rico constitutes a Latin American and Caribbean nation, with its own and unmistakable national identity, which Puerto Ricans have been able to defend despite the long colonization process to which they have been subjected.”
It is willfully hypocritical for the US government to take Cuba off the one list while it continues to designate Cuba as a state sponsor terrorism on the other. The US government has no moral or legal standing to put Cuba on its bogus SSOT list when Cuba has been the recipient for decades of direct and indirect terror attacks from US-based and often trained terrorists.
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Group of 77 and China, through their Joint Coordinating Committee, demanded the immediate exclusion of Cuba from the unilateral list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
Cuba strongly rejects the implementation of unilateral coercive measures, in violation of the Charter of the United Nations and international law. Such measures are particularly detrimental in the current conditions of an international economy in crisis increasingly interconnected, interdependent and under the dictates of the financial centers of power.
Cuba's placement on this list is an affront not only to the people of Cuba but to all who struggle for justice and peace. It is an attempt to legitimize the ongoing economic warfare perpetrated by the US government, that condemns children to hunger, the sick to suffering, and all Cubans to increased hardship.