The phrase "a statement refused" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone has declined to accept or acknowledge a particular statement or claim.
Example: "The committee issued a report, but a statement refused to be included due to its controversial nature."
Alternatives: "a rejected statement" or "a denied statement".
Meanwhile, most of the staff members are said to have signed a statement refusing to honor Ms. Van Isler's firing or cooperate with a successor.
On Saturday, after the president issued his executive order, a union representing taxi drivers in New York City issued a statement refusing to pick up passengers at Kennedy Airport — the center of the protest — from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
"Unfortunately it proved impossible to reach an agreed solution," the Greek prime minister, Costas Caramanlis, said in a statement, refusing to answer questions from journalists about the reasons for disagreement.
When the FBI won a federal court order saying Apple must help the agency break into an iPhone, its chief executive, Tim Cook, issued a public statement refusing to comply.
Verizon (our parent company), issued a quick follow up statement refusing to push the update over fears that not having a phone could prove problematic during holiday travel — of course, having a working Note 7 presents its own its issues while traveling.
He lurches from unsupported statement to unsupported statement, refusing to accept, for example, that certain animal behaviour is just instinct and therefore ascribing to it a higher intelligence.
In its statement refusing to reopen the case, the supreme court said it had agreed unanimously that extradition proceedings should not begin for another two weeks.
In a statement, DAI refused to comment on whether it had adequately informed Mr. Gross of the risks that came with his work in Cuba.
A press officer acting for the administrators issued a statement and refused to elaborate on the problems the company had experienced under the union's control.
When Sukhdev's husband Balwant asked the police to take a statement, they refused, saying they couldn't investigate missing people until 24 hours had lapsed.
