Cuban leader Raul Castro called on U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday to show consistency in the fight against terrorism and drop double standards, Cuban news agency CAN said.
"The Cuban Government urges President Obama to abide with his commitment to fight terrorism and to act with determination and without double standards against those who from U.S. territory have perpetrated and continue to perpetrate terrorist acts against Cuba," Castro said in a speech on the country's Victims of State Terrorism Day on October 6.
The day marks the anniversary of the 1976 bombing of a Cuban plane near Barbados, which left 73 people, including 57 Cuban nationals, dead. Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles, believed by Havana to be the perpetrators of the attack, are thought to be taking refuge in the United States.
Castro reiterated his country's demand to be removed from the United State's "sponsor of terrorism list."
"The Cuban territory has never been and never will be used to organize, finance or carry out terrorist acts against any other country, including the United States," the Cuban leader said.
Castro said that the United States ignored his country's proposals to draft a joint anti-terrorism bilateral cooperation agreement in 2001, 2002 and 2009.
Havana is a party to all 13 international conventions on the issue and "strictly abides" by its commitments under UN General Assembly and Security Council resolutions, the Cuban leader said.
He added that his country "does not possess nor intend to possess any type of weapons of mass destruction, and fully complies with its obligations under existing international instruments on nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons."
HAVANA, October 7 (RIA Novosti)
