The document, drawn up by the end of 2010, published on the website of the U.S. Foreign Service. "Declared state sponsor of terrorism in 1982, the Cuban government in 2010 supported the declaration on combating terrorism and its financing. However, there is no evidence that it has ceased communication with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC – rebel group, the U.S. is considered a terrorist), moreover, the media reported that several current and former members of the Basque ETA live in Cuba "- the document says. The State Department accuses the Cuban government that it supports "limited contact" with the FARC, but it is recognized that no evidence about the provision of financial and material resources to representatives of groups. U.S. Department recognizes that in March, the authorities have allowed Cuba to the police in Spain who are looking for ETA members to visit the country. "Cuba continues to condemn the U.S. counterterrorism activities, regarding them as an attempt to expand American influence in the world … Cuba has not taken any anti-terrorism law in 2010 … She was not funded in 2010, initiatives to combat terrorism and has not participated in regional and global operations against terrorists" , – notes, however, the State Department. Traditionally, the list of countries sponsoring terrorism are Iran, Syria, with which the U.S. has intensified with the start of the riots in this country, as well as Sudan. Cuban authorities have consistently called for the United States more closely examine the situation in Cuba and does not include automatic country to the list of terrorism sponsors. Back in October 2010, Cuban leader Raul Castro has urged U.S. President Barack Obama to abandon double standards in this area. According to him, the people of Cuba was the target of state terrorism since the victory of the revolution in 1959. Since that time against Cuba and its citizens to exercise "arson, bombings, sabotage, hijacking of aircraft and ships, kidnapping, attacks on and murder of diplomats." In spite of all these crimes, he said Cuba had always been "a rough fight" against terrorism and condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. Castro said that Havana has signed 13 international treaties in this area, and strictly comply with the obligations arising from the resolutions of the UN General Assembly and Security Council of this organization. Cuba, he continued, has not and does not intend to possess any weapons of mass destruction and complies with all obligations with respect to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. According to Castres , The territory of Cuba has never been used and will not be used for the organization, financing or execution of terrorist attacks against any country, including the United States. Havana, he said, has expressed readiness to cooperate with U.S. anti-terrorism activities, but the FBI and the right-wing forces "harassed and thrown in court," the five Cuban citizens who were fighting terrorism. United States, said Castro did not respond to three sentences of the Cuban cooperation in the fight against terrorism. In late 2001, in March 2002 and July 2009, Cuba presented a draft program of the U.S. bilateral cooperation to combat terrorism, but no response from Washington has not followed. In March, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter called for the lifting of trade and economic embargo declared by the U.S. against Cuba, and to exclude Cuba from the list of countries supporting terrorism. According to the ex-president, the Helms-Burton Act, passed in 1996 during the presidency of Bill Clinton and tighten the embargo should be lifted completely. Its adoption and signing was a mistake, the law itself is counterproductive, I'm sure Carter. According to Carter, the Cuban and U.S. intelligence agencies collaborated to prevent threats from "Al Qaeda", and accused the U.S. of having links with radical groups in Havana in Colombia and Spain are groundless.
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