Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío assured that so far, no information has been received about the individual who threw two Molotov cocktails at the diplomatic mission in Washington on Sunday night.

“What we have done is warning about the circumstances that make some people in the United States with terrorist tendencies think that they can act with impunity against the Cuban Embassy,” he stated in reference to the previous attack with an AK-47 assault rifle in 2020.

At the time, we are waiting for the results of the investigation carried out by US law enforcement forces, he stressed.

A statement released by the Cuban Foreign Ministry described the attack on September 24 as terrorist, and recalled that three years after the first violent act, the perpetrator is still waiting to be tried.

The Government of the United States has refused to qualify the event as a terrorist act, the document emphasized.

At the same time, it noted the special obligation of the United States to take appropriate measures to protect the premises of the Cuban Embassy, as established by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

The statement warned about the message conveyed regarding the attitude of the US Government in the face of these kinds of threats against Cuba’s and other foreign embassies in Washington.

At the request of the Cuban diplomatic mission, officers with the United States Secret Service had access to the Cuban Embassy to verify the violent action. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez released a surveillance video on his X account. The images show how the attacker arrived in front of the Cuban Embassy, lit the Molotov cocktails and threw them at the building’s façade.

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