Havana, June 14 (RHC)--The Cuban Association of United Nations (ACNU) - an organization that brings together representatives of civil society - condemned on Wednesday terrorism in all its manifestations, as well as its impact on the population.

In the second edition of the workshop "For Cuba's Sovereignty and against Terrorism", held at the University of Havana and organized by the UNCA, the president of that organization, Norma Goicochea, pointed out that this scourge constitutes one of the most serious threats to national security.

She explained that the panel, in addition to discussing the effects of terrorism in the Caribbean nation, is dedicated to Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada (1937-2022), one of the most renowned foreign ministers of the island and a fervent denouncer of this evil.

Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernandez de Cossio highlighted how Alarcon denounced that State terrorism has stalked the Cuban Revolution since its triumph in 1959, financed and organized from the United States.

"It has been the U.S. government that has taken on the task of hiring mercenaries to commit terrorist actions against Cuba and other countries in the hemisphere," the vice-chancellor stressed.

He recalled Alarcón when he said that the main source of terrorism was in Virginia, at the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States, and that among the causes are the eagerness of the economically powerful to protect their interests, as well as the objective of suppressing the rights of the peoples.

Fernández de Cossío reiterated that his country has a clean and recognized trajectory against this scourge, but also has a long history of acts of this type against it, which have cost thousands of lives.

"Even so, the United States has the cynicism to include the Caribbean nation in the arbitrary list of State sponsors of terrorism, which causes enormous damage to its economic development," he asserted.

For his part, Cuban professor and ambassador Abelardo Moreno referred to the treatment of terrorism in the United Nations Security Council, and how it is manipulated according to U.S. interests.

Also speaking on the panel was José Luis Méndez, member of the Cuban Society of International Law, who referred to the more than a dozen plans to assassinate abroad the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro (1926-2016).

He emphasized that the aim of all terrorist actions against the island is to terrorize the people and cause economic, biological and human damage.

The effects of media terrorism and the war of hatred against Cuba were also discussed at this second meeting.