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Taiwan talks the first island negotiations yet
Created: 2008-10-28 1:06:32
THE Chinese mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait chairman Chen Yunlin will lead a delegation to Taiwan from December 3 to 7, the first meeting on the island between the two parties.
According to ARATS's vice chairman Zheng Lizhong, the ARATS and Taiwan's Strait Exchange Foundation will discuss cross-Strait shipping, air transport, mail services and food safety in the second meeting of the two organizations' current leaders.
Zheng said the ARATS chief's trip to Taiwan would be a return after the SEF chief Chiang Pin-kung's mainland visit in June this year and was part of systematic negotiations between ARATS and SEF.
Considering the crisis in international financial markets and the challenges it had brought to cross-strait economic development, the two organizations would also hold talks to enhance cooperation and find fiscal solutions.
The trip comes in the wake of the manhandling by a mob of Zhang Mingqing, dean of journalism at Xiamen University and ARATS deputy chief, in Taiwan last week.
A local lawmaker from the Democratic Progressive Party allegedly incited a mob to carry out the attack, in which Zhang was shoved to the ground. Zhang was visiting the island at the invitation of the Taiwan National University of the Arts.
The ARATS had asked the Taiwan authority to prevent any more such outbreaks.
Taiwan authority's security department yesterday said it had started its work to provide a "seamless protection" for the ARATS.
Security staff would maintain a safe, peaceful and smooth trip for the mainland delegation, Tsai Chao-ming, Taiwan's Security Bureau Director, said.
According to the island's police, about 7,000 police officers have been mobilized to safeguard Chen's delegation.
According to ARATS's vice chairman Zheng Lizhong, the ARATS and Taiwan's Strait Exchange Foundation will discuss cross-Strait shipping, air transport, mail services and food safety in the second meeting of the two organizations' current leaders.
Zheng said the ARATS chief's trip to Taiwan would be a return after the SEF chief Chiang Pin-kung's mainland visit in June this year and was part of systematic negotiations between ARATS and SEF.
Considering the crisis in international financial markets and the challenges it had brought to cross-strait economic development, the two organizations would also hold talks to enhance cooperation and find fiscal solutions.
The trip comes in the wake of the manhandling by a mob of Zhang Mingqing, dean of journalism at Xiamen University and ARATS deputy chief, in Taiwan last week.
A local lawmaker from the Democratic Progressive Party allegedly incited a mob to carry out the attack, in which Zhang was shoved to the ground. Zhang was visiting the island at the invitation of the Taiwan National University of the Arts.
The ARATS had asked the Taiwan authority to prevent any more such outbreaks.
Taiwan authority's security department yesterday said it had started its work to provide a "seamless protection" for the ARATS.
Security staff would maintain a safe, peaceful and smooth trip for the mainland delegation, Tsai Chao-ming, Taiwan's Security Bureau Director, said.
According to the island's police, about 7,000 police officers have been mobilized to safeguard Chen's delegation.
Xinhua
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