At Tuesdays UN Security Council meeting on Threats Caused by Terrorism, Cuban Ambassador Ileana Nunez denounced the high cost of numberless terrorist actions, mostly organized from US territory, along 45 years.

Nunez recalled the 3,478 deaths and 2,099 wounded and/or permanently physically impaired, as well as the high economic price for her country.

Instead of preventing and punishing anti-Cuba terrorism, the US continues to sequester five Cubans, even after the US Atlanta Appellate Court annulled their sentences.

The Cuban Five were only gathering intelligence on terrorist groups operating in Miami, in order to prevent their violent actions and save the lives of Cubans and US citizens, added the Alternate ambassador of Cuban at the UN.

Another example of the US double standard in its alleged anti-terror drive, which she pointed out, is the failure to try or extradite notorious international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

Nunez detailed this case and showed official documents proving Federal complicity with Posada Carriles’ illegal entry into the US aboard the ship Santrina, which the US denied for months.

Another example of hypocrisy in terrorism that she offered the Council was the April 19 arrest in LA, of Cuban-American Robert Ferro. He was found with 1,571 firearms, including antimissiles and hand grenades that he said the US government supplied to fight Fidel Castro.

The ambassador noted that the Cuban Embassy has briefed the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee, set up in 2001 through R-1373, on the activity of this and other terrorist individuals and groups, as well as US Federal complicit protection of them.

So far, the Committee has not done anything to assess the information submitted and investigate the US violation of R-1373.

Cuba reaffirmed its request that the Committee do so and help end the impunity of anti-Cuba terrorists in the US.

Nunez concluded by pointing out it is impossible to eliminate terrorism if one condemns some acts while remaining silent, tolerating or justifying others.

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