UN General Assembly
2012

remaining strictures pertaining to Taiwan’s standing among the international community of nations be removed. Saint Kitts and Nevis appeals to this body to ensure that that will indeed be done. In closing, I wish to stress here how unfortunate it is that, yet again, the case has to be made for the lifting of the embargo on Cuba. The embargo is not, as some may wish to suggest, a matter of merely bilateral import. Not only have we repeatedly heard Cuba oppose the situation in this very body, but we also know that the embargo’s continued denial of certain medical treatments to the Cuban people is simply unconscionable. Cuba and its people have made considerable contributions to international medicine and higher education, and the Caribbean has been among its most sustained beneficiaries. It is therefore with the utmost conviction and clearest possible resolve that Saint Kitts and Nevis calls for the immediate end to the embargo. I recall that it was in July and August of this year that the international community participated in the