The US Government lacks evidence to ascertain that Venezuela is sponsoring terrorism, said on Wednesday US State Department's counter-terrorism coordinator Dell Dailey.

Dailey introduced on Wednesday the 2007 "Patterns of Global Terrorism" report, prepared annually by the US government as instructed by the Congress, DPA stated.

Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria remained in the list.

As it happened in 2006, Venezuela was included as a country that "does not cooperate fully" with the US counter-terrorism efforts.

However, Dailey noted that the United States was "worried" about the ties between the Venezuelan Government and the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC).

"As indicators present themselves, we will take a look at it and analyze it and compare it, and if we think it's appropriate then we will move them towards a state sponsor of terrorism. But we are not there yet," the official added.