Hsieh said he would like to invite Hu to visit Kinmen, where they could sit down and talk about bilateral economic development, peaceful co-existence and their responsibility to the international community.
He urged both sides to put aside their disputes and refrain from letting complicated issues hamper the development of ones that are easier to solve.
When asked for comment, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) applauded the president's plans to relax cross-strait policies and urged Chen to begin by arranging charter flights starting on March 1 for Taiwanese based in China to return to vote in next month's presidential election.
Asked to comment on a campaign to boycott the two UN referendums, Ma reiterated his stance that he does not oppose the referendums, but he is against holding the referendums in conjunction with an election.
Additional reporting by Flora Wang
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