The phrase "a statement held" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a belief, opinion, or assertion that someone maintains or supports.
Example: "The committee issued a report that included a statement held by the majority regarding the proposed changes."
Alternatives: "a belief maintained" or "an assertion upheld".
You could have issued a statement, held a press conference, whatever you wished.
Opposition leaders in a statement held the Lebanese and Syrian governments "fully responsible" for the assassination.
Boal told The New York Times he did not want "to play fast and loose with history" — a statement held against him by several of the movie's critics, most eloquently Steve Coll in The New York Review of Books.
Before his death, David Haines read a statement holding David Cameron directly responsible for his beheading.
Finally, though, the group issued a statement holding the military responsible for the violence in Tahrir and demanding an inquiry.
In November 2010, the Russian Parliament approved a statement holding Stalin and other Soviet leaders responsible for the Katyn killings.
On Monday evening, members of the Lebanese opposition movement issued a statement holding Syria and the Lebanese government negligent in Mr. Hariri's death.
Russia's Parliament on Friday approved a statement holding Stalin responsible for ordering the 1940 murder of more than 20,000 Polish officers in a forest near the village of Katyn.
Although his wife issued a statement holding out the possibility of reconciliation, the press conference made it clear that sexual indiscretion is less the big problem here than the fact that Mark Sanford is a complete loony.
In a concerted western effort to bring maximum pressure to bear on Moscow, Barack Obama issued a statement holding Putin "directly responsible" for the Ukrainian rebels' cooperation with international crash investigators after more than three days of obstruction.
Before his death, he read a statement holding Cameron directly responsible for his killing, while the Isis fighter addressed Cameron directly, saying Haines "has to pay the price for your promise".
