HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 13 (ACN) - Members of the European Parliament rejected the inclusion of Cuba on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, promoted by the US Department of State and its secretary Mike Pompeo, a decision they described as crazy, arbitrary and unworthy.

Pedro Luis Pedroso, permanent representative of Cuba to the United Nations, reiterated the Caribbean nation's strong condemnation of all terrorist acts, methods and practices in all their forms and manifestations.

China stated that the United States further deteriorated its credibility by including Cuba into a unilateral list of countries that sponsor terrorism without showing any evidence, a decision rejected by a growing number of governments and personalities around the world.

U.S. Congressmen demanded from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo an explanation of the basis for including Cuba again on the list of state sponsors of terrorism.

José Ulisses de Pina Correia, Prime Minister of the Republic of Cape Verde, thanked the efforts made by Cuban doctors at the international level in the confrontation with COVID-19, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs highlights.

The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned in the strongest and most absolute terms the fraudulent qualification of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, announced by the government of the United States in a cynical and hypocritical act.

Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla reported today on Twitter that 80 percent of those dead from COVID-19 in prisons in Texas, United States, remained in prison despite not having been sentenced for a crime.

Attempts to include Cuba on the list of states sponsoring terrorism is hypocritical and demonstrates U.S. double standards on the issue, according to different media outlets.

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador thanked the Cuban government for sending around 500 healthcare professionals to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

The normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba would bolster new interests, most obviously in the hard-hit tourist industry of both countries, an American specialist declared.

Canada's Nobel Peace Prize Project called Mail Art in support of the nomination of Cuba's 'Henry Reeve' International Medical Brigade for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.

Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica, sent Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of the Republic of Cuba, a congratulatory message on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

Esteban Lazo, president of the Cuban National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament), congratulated his Venezuelan counterpart, Jorge Rodriguez, who took office Tuesday, in an event attended by a Cuban delegation led by Ana Maria Mari Machado, vice president of the Cuban legislature.

Cuban ambassador to Benin, Yenielys Regueiferos Linares, and officials of that nation exchanged Tuesday on the possibilities of bilateral collaboration in tourism.