US Ministry of Foreign Affairs Cuba has identified and adopted as a “full -time country” (NFCC) to not help in combating terrorism after the Al -Jazeera nation failed to hand over at least 11 fugitives in 2024 to the American nursery.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Tami Bruce announced on Tuesday that the certificate, which is included in the matter of Article 40A of the Arms Export Control Law, will lead to a ban or a license to export defense services to Cuba.
“In 2024, the Cuban regime did not completely cooperate with the United States on combating terrorism,” Bruce said in a statement. “There were at least 11 American fugitives of justice in Cuba, including many confrontations Terms related to terrorismThe Cuban regime explained that it was not ready to discuss their return to confront justice in our nation.
“The Cuban regime’s refusal to engage in this important issue, in addition to other modern circumstances, not to cooperate on terrorist law enforcement issues, made efforts to cooperate on anti -terrorist issues that are useless in 2024,” it continued.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel (Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images)
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio not only relied on Cuba as NFCC, and he reshaped Iran, Syria, Venezuela and North Korea as NFCCS.
In January, the Biden administration raised the nomination of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, reflecting a step taken by the Trump administration in 2021.
Former President Joe Biden said at the time that the Cuban government “did not provide any support for international terrorism during the previous six months” in addition to “providing guarantees that it will not support international terrorism in the future.”
Democrats and Republicans criticize Detin Biden Cuba Cuba
President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Mark Schiesfelbein)
Cuba was granted the appointment in January 2021, shortly before Biden took office. At that time, the US embassy in Cuba accused a country “providing repeated support to international terrorism in granting a safe port to terrorists.”
The appointment of the Caribbean Nation had returned to a list it had from the Reagan administration to the administration of former President Barack Obama. In 2016, Obama became the first American president to visit Cuba since 1928.
Then Barack Obama and then -president, Raul Castro, hold a joint press conference in Havana on March 21, 2016. (Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
The Obama administration tried to normalize relations in 2015 but faced resistance from President Donald Trump, whose administration recently argued that Cuba failed to cooperate in combating terrorism.
Foreign Ministry officials said that Cuba refused to hand over 10 suspects in Colombia to detonate the Police Academy, killing 22 people and wounding others.
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The authorities also accused the Cuba of harboring many American flee Asa Shakur. He was convicted of the killing of a New Jersey Werner Forster soldier in 1973.
In the summer of 2017, Trump imposed a travel and financial restrictions on Cuba while “One side” bombing Obama deal 2016 with the system.
Andrea Margolis of Fox News Digitter contributed to this report.
