UN General Assembly
2011

I wish, on behalf of the Government and people of Saint Kitts and Nevis, to express gratitude for the honour of addressing the General Assembly. I also extend on their behalf 7 11-51378 sincere congratulations to Mr. Nassir Abdul-Aziz Al-Nasser on his election to preside over the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session. My delegation also wishes to thank Mr. Joseph Deiss, President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session, for his leadership during a very busy and demanding session. Our new President’s tenure coincides with a time when there is on the Assembly’s agenda a confluence of global issues with particular relevance for the small island developing States of the Caribbean. Most delegations recently participated, for example, in the United Nations High-level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, held in June; the United Nations High- level Meeting on Youth, held in July; and the United Nations High-level Meeting on Non-communicable Diseases, held a few days ago. The convening of those meetings gives ample acknowledgement of the challenges that we still face in our relentless pursuit of