The United States is to assess reports about alleged links between Venezuela and the rebel Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), an organization Washington views as a terrorist group, "and will act accordingly," said the US Secretary of State Condoleezza  Rice Thursday in Brasilia.

"We are going to watch the situation and act accordingly," Rice said in a joint press conference with her Brazilian counterpart Celso Amorim. She would not clarify whether her country plans to enroll Venezuela in a list of nations sponsoring terrorism, as some news reports claimed, AFP informed.

Rice on Thursday paid a quick visit to Brasilia, where she met with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and with Amorim in the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.