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Foreign Ministry note
Cuba calls on the United States to prove biological
weapons accusations
ON October
2, 2003, Roger Noriega, assistant secretary of state
for Western Hemispheric Affairs, ratified at a U.S.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, the Bush
administration’s policy of increasing hostilities
and aggression against Cuba. He announced a new
plan of subversive activities against our country
and reiterated the cynical accusations that Cuba is
developing a limited program of biological weapons.
Let us not
forget that Mr. Noriega was advisor to ultra
reactionary senator Jesse Helms and, together with
the Miami terrorist mafia, one of the coordinators
of the infamous Helms Burton Act. He is now
evidently following in the footsteps of Mr. Otto
Reich to become the main spokesperson for the
anti-Cuban policy and is also responsible for U.S.
interference in Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution.
In his
impudent statements, Noriega announced that the U.S.
administration is going to intensify its efforts to
increase subversion and propaganda against Cuba;
increase international pressure against our country;
check that blockade restrictions are strictly
adhered to, including travel restrictions and
measures against foreign business people investing
in Cuba; and is threatening to take new actions
against Cuban diplomats in the United States.
Cuba totally
rejects these new imperial threats by Mr. Noriega
and once again denounces the Bush administration
plans aimed at pleasing the Cuban-American extreme
rightwing that is increasing pressure and
intensifying its electoral blackmail as the 2004
presidential elections approach.
Mr. Noriega
suffers from stupid arrogance and acts like a
fanatical member of the Miami terrorist groups
obsessed with the Cuban Revolution.
Once more,
this individual has shamefully lied in order to try
and link Cuba with bio-terrorism. It is evident that
he has learnt nothing from the ridiculous acts of
his colleagues John Bolton, Dan Fisk and Otto
Reich. As before, Cuba is calling on the U.S.
administration to demonstrate that it is not
shamefully lying and to present the minimal amount
of proof to back up these mendacious accusations
that our country is developing biological weapons.
Such cynical lies deserve contempt and we warn them
in advance that we are not in the least frightened.
It is
disgraceful that top U.S. government figures have to
lie before Congress in order to justify their
discredited anti-Cuban policy.
It is not
worth losing time over Mr. Noriega’s fallacious
charlatanism. Not one single person in Cuba is going
to lose sleep over his repugnant statements and
threats. They should be aware beforehand how costly
any aggression on Cuba will be.
Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
Havana,
October 5, 2003.
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