UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's rejection of Taiwan's application to become a signatory to a UN women's rights convention based on UN Resolution 2758 is absolutely unacceptable to Taiwan and its people, Taiwan's representative in New York said on Thursday.
Liao Kang-min (廖港民), who doubles as head of Taiwan's UN working group, said that Ban's denial of Taiwan's right to take part in the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women based on UN Resolution 2758 -- which Ban claims stipulates that "Taiwan is part of the People's Republic of China" -- was "groundless and a fallacy."
Liao said that since the UN passed Resolution 2758 in 1971, Beijing has tried to mislead the world into thinking that Taiwan is part of the People's Republic of China, pointing out that the resolution only replaced the Republic of China with the People's Republic of China as the sole representative of China in the UN and that it did not address the representation of the Taiwanese people.
Liao, who succeeded Andrew Hsia (
Meanwhile, Laio said his office would push Taiwan's bid to join the UN using the name "Taiwan" in the next two months using a two-pronged strategy -- seeking representation in the organization for Taiwanese based on the principle of universality prescribed in the UN Charter and proposing a proactive role for the UN in maintaining peace, stability and security in East Asia, including the Taiwan Strait.
Liao quoted Vice President Annette Lu (
Last September marked the nation's 14th attempt in as many years to join the UN.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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