Cuba has nothing to hide
Statement Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs

On April 30, the US Government presented its annual report Patterns of 
Global Terrorism. In this document, Cuba is once again included on the list 
of states that allegedly sponsor terrorism at international level.

The Government of Cuba once again energetically rejects the infamous 
inclusion of our country in this unilateral and spurious list.

The Bush administration is once again lying to the US and international 
public in its desire to justify with false accusations the cruel and 
inhuman policy of blockade, hostility and aggression in the case of Cuba.

With this action, the United States is increasing its own lack of 
credibility in its campaign against international terrorism by having 
recourse to political manipulations and flagrant lies against Cuba in its 
obsession to destroy the Revolution.

In an arbitrary form the US Government has included Cuba on the list of 
countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism in the world, while rejecting 
through the use of empty, irrational arguments lacking any solid base, 
Cuba' s proposal to subscribe to a Bilateral Program for Combatting 
Terrorism, placed before the US Government on November 29, 2001 and 
reiterated on December 3, 2001, March 12, 2002, and December 17, 2002 at 
the 19th round of migratory talks between the two countries.

Maybe more than any other country in the world, Cuba knows what terrorism 
means. Since 1959 we have been the victim of the most cruel and merciless 
terrorism, frequently sponsored, protected, financed and organised by the 
US Government itself, and which has resulted in the death of thousands of 
Cuban citizens.

The Cuban Revolution's policy in relation to terrorism does not admit any 
questions or doubts, far less those coming from Washington.

Cuba condemns all acts, methods and practices of terrorism in all their 
forms and manifestations, wherever, by whoever commits them, against whom 
they are committed and whatever their motivations. At the same time, it 
condemns any action whose objective is to encourage, support, finance or 
cover up any terrorist act, method or practice.

Cuba was among the first nations to energetically and unhesitatingly 
condemn the crime of September 11, 2001; it expressed our people's 
condolences to the US people and our disposition to provide medical and 
humanitarian aid to the victims, and immediately offered to open its 
airspace and airports to passenger planes en route to the United States at 
that difficult moment.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba denounces before the people of Cuba 
and world public opinion the fallacies and lies with which the US 
Government is attempting to deceive the world and its own people as a way 
of sustaining its aggressive and hostile policy against our country.