Lateefah Simon: “I feel that any country capable of making a real contribution to the activities of the United Nations should have the…”

“I feel that any country capable of making a real contribution to the activities of the United Nations should have the opportunity to do so as a full member of that organization. For that reason, it is all the more unfortunate that a country of 21 million people, a country that has made great strides in consolidating democratic institutions and practices, a country that has become a significant economic power and a major contributor to international assistance efforts--that such a country should find itself closed out of the United Nations. I am speaking, of course, of Taiwan. Together with my cosponsor, Senator Brown, I am pleased to submit today a Senate Concurrent Resolution that reaffirms, as the sense of the Senate, what many of us in this Chamber have already concluded: That Taiwan deserves to participate fully in the United Nations as a full member, and that the U.S. Government should encourage the United Nations to begin studying means to bring this about.”