Wu Chiu-sup: Craft meets Tsai on the 14th to talk about promoting Taiwan’s international participation

Taiwan‘s Foreign Minister Wu Chiu-sup told the media today that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen on the 14th during her visit to Taiwan from the 13th to the 15th; he also said that Craft’s visit to Taiwan is mainly to discuss how to promote Taiwan’s participation in international organizations, which is important to Taiwan.

The day after tomorrow, on the 13th, Kelly Craft, the current U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is coming to Taiwan, and she will meet with the president on the 14th, and she will also have a meeting with me, and she will also give a public lecture at our diplomatic academy. The topic of her interview in Taiwan is to discuss with us in Taiwan how to promote Taiwan’s participation in international organizations.”

Early yesterday morning U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that all restrictions on interactions with Taiwan had been lifted, which Wu said was a major event for the enhancement of U.S.-Taiwan relations. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sincerely welcomes and thanks the U.S. approach, and expresses its high appreciation to the U.S. Congressmen who have long promoted the easing or lifting of restrictions on U.S.-Taiwan relations.

Wu said that these things have been promoted for a while, and that Taiwan’s mutual trust with the United States has continued to improve because of Taiwan’s pragmatic and responsible foreign policy, and that Taiwan will use the same attitude and practices to continuously improve relations with the United States. He said, Taiwan and the United States share the universal values of freedom, democracy and human rights, so Taiwan and the United States on international cooperation on various issues has developed into a global partner, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will not slacken, will further enhance relations with the United States.

In addition, Taiwan’s military sources pointed out today that the extended-range Xiong 2E cruise missile, developed by the Sun Yat-sen Research Institute, with a range of up to 1,200 kilometers, has been allocated to the national army in small batches; military sources revealed that the extended-range Xiong 2E cruise missile, compared to the past Xiong 2E missile with a range of about 600 kilometers, the extended-range version has “source strike capability “, can effectively strike military facilities along the Chinese coast. As for this new type of missile allocated to which units and the number of units, because it involves confidential, the military would not disclose.