The phrase "a statement criticizing the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific statement that expresses disapproval or critique about a particular subject or issue.
Example: "The article included a statement criticizing the government's handling of the crisis."
Alternatives: "a remark denouncing the" or "a comment rebuking the".
Andreas Heldal-Lund, founder of the Scientology-critical website and non-profit organization Operation Clambake, released a statement criticizing the digital assault against Scientology.
and reading a statement criticizing the United States.
Chancellor Klein issued a statement criticizing the decision.
Later Monday, the A.N.C. issued a statement criticizing the media for an invasion of privacy.
French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault issued a statement criticizing the cartoons and any such "excess".
All 11 Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee issued a statement criticizing the budget delay.
The government of the Marshall Islands, in a statement, criticized the Coast Guard report as based on "conjecture and speculation".
The Romney campaign, in a statement, criticized "the Obama administration's attempts to scuttle the Magnitsky bill and its overall reluctance to shine a light on human rights abuses in Russia and the Putin government's backsliding on democratic principles".
Rubio, who has said the Orlando shooting had a deep impact on him, voted along party lines on Monday and in a statement criticized the Democrats' solutions as "politically motivated and driven by a larger ideological agenda to disarm Americans".
Andrew Cuomo, in a statement, criticized the governor for failing to address problems, like a "near-Depression upstate," and complained that Mr. Pataki had predicted a multibillion-dollar deficit in the coming budget, but "did not tell us -- not a word -- how he plans to balance it".
After the Democratic Progressive Party and the Nationalists announced last week that they had agreed on legislation to reinstate the partial beef ban, a deputy United States trade representative, Demetrios Marantis, and an under secretary of agriculture, Jim Miller, issued a joint statement criticizing the Taiwanese position.
