Nicaragua Deflates US Terror Report
The Nicaraguan Foreign Affairs Ministry rejected a US government report about terrorism, considering the text contains disinformation, sources reported on Monday in this capital.

"About the report on Nicaragua, the Foreign Ministry said it contains and spreads untrue information," says the information sent to the US embassy in Managua during the weekend.

The text published on Monday on the local foreign ministry web site, refers to the Country Reports on Terrorism 2006, elaborated by the US State Department and announced on April 30.

According to the Nicaraguan government, the local armed forces have never admitted that the portable land-to-air rockets in their possession could reach terrorists hands, as the US reports says.

"On the contrary, the Nicaraguan government ratifies and announces that its portable anti-aircraft complexes are kept under strict security parameters," the foreign ministry asserted.

Destruction of the SAM-7 missiles, made in Russia, is an old wish of Washington, but the proposal has been rejected by the current Sandinista government, which opposes its Army s unilateral disarmament.

It also recalls that the National Assembly is working on several bills against terrorism, and Nicaragua is a member of the UN Convention and other international legal instruments against that scourge.