6+Cuba

Committee: 6 Topic: State Sponsored Terrorism Country: Cuba Mildrid Maganda, Per. 3  __BACKGROUND OF THE TOPIC__: Many countries nowadays have had problems with terrorism and faced many difficulties. Terrorism is to use force or violence against innocent civilians to make a statement about a cause and influence an audience. Two forms of state-sponsored terrorism exist at the beginning of the twenty-first century: governments that carry out terrorism acts against their own citizens, and government support of groups who carry out terrorism against other governments(Website). State sponsored terrorism has started from centuries back when they used attacks to finish their enemies during the mid- 1970’s. Many countries are trying to get rid of the terrorism, but other countries believe that terrorism is the way to deal with problems. It affected many of the countries around the world because they are killing all the people they don’t want to be there. Main group that is the center of terrorism has been Iran for the United States. Without state sponsors for terrorism, terrorist groups would have trouble obtaining funds, weapons, materials, and places to stay in.

__UNITED NATIONS INVOLVEMENT __: The United Nations has tried many solutions to make a better progress to all the countries that support terrorism. Many countries have gone together increasing the numbers to their counter-terrorism efforts. It was originally involved making solutions to the countries of terrorism but some don’t want to listen to some of the solutions. The UN has made countries around the world to agree to one solution to fight terrorism on September 19, 2006. Central Intelligence Agency's Counterterrorism Center has been involved around the world to try to stop those who tend to be terrorists to others.

__COUNTRY POLICY AND INVOLVEMENT__:  Cuba has been in many difficult problems they have passed through. Cuba started state sponsor terrorism until 1982, but some officials don’t believe we are a threat to national security. We Cubans believe that it is up to the United Nations to make the global struggle against terrorism legitimate. Although there is no evidence that Cuba directly sponsores terrorism, some islands serve as a place to stay for members of some regional and international terrorist organizations. Cuba has been the one of the seven countries who supports terrorism. My country has been providing arms, financial backing, and keeps making countries do terrorist attacks. It provides homes to terrorists from different terrorist groups. Cuba maintains a real good relationship to other state sponsored terrorism. Now Cuba isn’t able to support terrorism because of its severe economic problems . Cuba actively continued to oppose the U.S. to the global war on terror and has publicly condemned various U.S. policies and actions. Cuba has agreed to stop providing safe areas to new terrorist.

__SOLUTIONS__: Since terrorism has been in so many situations we Cubans have created a solution to help some of the issues. A solution that we created was SIC, secret international committee. This committee meets semi-annually to discuss which country to investigate. This committee's job is to investigate countries without distraction. The countrie's permit allows them to investigate the said country. Another solution we created is to monitor the things that are sended or coming in to a country to make sure it isn't something that might cause a problem. With these solutions, we can reduce the problem with terrorism and make the world a better place.

__BIBLIOGRAPHY:__   <http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2007/071205_Terrorism.doc.htm>