Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) is to depart for a diplomatic tour on Friday next week, to attend the inauguration of El Salvadoran president-elect Sanchez Ceren on June 1, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Simon Ko (柯森耀) told a press conference on Thursday.
Ko tried to clarify what he said was a misunderstanding that it would be the first time that a Republic of China (ROC) delegation to a presidential inauguration ceremony in El Salvador was not led by the president.
The delegation to congratulate then-El Salvadoran president-elect Francisco Flores in 1999 was led by then-vice president Vincent Siew (蕭萬長) and the inauguration of Antonio Saca in 2004 was attended by then-vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮), Ko said.
The trip will be Jiang’s first diplomatic tour since he assumed the premiership in February last year, Ko said, dismissing concerns that the government had decided to send a lower-profile delegation.
Having Jiang attend the inauguration ceremony on behalf of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) reflected the fact that the ROC government attaches great importance to the 60-year friendship between the two countries, Ko said.
The Jiang-led delegation, composed of his wife Lee Shu-jen (李淑珍), Ko, Overseas Community Affairs Council Minister Steven Chen (陳士魁) and Secretary-General of the foreign ministry’s Department of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs Jaime Chen (陳新東), among others, will transit in Los Angeles en route to the Central American country and on the return leg to Taipei on June 4, Ko said.
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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