Sergey Gubarev, Russia’s envoy to Taiwan, was conferred a diplomatic medal yesterday in recognition of his contributions to promoting relations between Taiwan and Russia.
Gubarev, the representative of the Moscow-Taipei Coordination Commission on Economic and Cultural Cooperation in Taipei, is scheduled to leave Taiwan on Nov. 7 after serving four years as the de facto Russian ambassador to Taiwan in the absence of formal diplomatic relations.
“During his four-year tenure, Representative Gubarev has done an excellent job of expanding Russia-Taiwan exchanges in such areas as the economy and trade, technology, arts and culture,” Minister of Foreign Affairs Timothy Yang (楊進添) said at the ceremony to confer Gubarev the Friendship Medal of Diplomacy. “His dedication to this task has won him many friends from all walks of society in Taiwan, and especially from the ministry.”
Describing Gubarev as an outstanding diplomat with a wealth of experience, Yang said he promoted various projects beneficial to bilateral relations.
They included arranging a visit to Taiwan last year by a delegation led by Anatoly Chubais, Russia’s former first prime minister and chief executive of the state-run nanotechnology company Rusnano, and a trip to Russia by Taiwan’s vice minister of economic affairs to attend the first International Forum on Nanotechnologies, also last year.
“The best side of [my] Taiwanese life was the Taiwanese people, who are very friendly, cooperative and open,” Gubarev said.
He said he found the diplomatic medal precious because he received it from people he loves.
“Thanks to the attitude of the Taiwanese people, the four years that I spent here in Taiwan [were] like one day for me,” he said.
As to promoting direct flights between Taipei and Moscow, Gubarev said the main obstacles lie with the airlines rather than the governments.
The Moscow office said Vasily Dobrovolsky, the new Russian representative to Taiwan, is scheduled to arrive on Nov. 16.
Dobrovolsky was a senior officer at the APEC and has previously served in Japan.
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