Taiwan in isolation claim
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Re P ublic of (PRC) was accused of rying to isolate Taiwan from sland countries. Taiwanese /ice-Minister for Foreign Afairc Phin v ° ,
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• i . • , rose Lm IT " 0 " E* 6 ? ruL’ T. ® e V lng S “ le g al wion that Taiwan did not xist as an independent naional entity. In the past, lalogue meetings between !g powers and islands’ rep- -sentatives have been restric- *1 to Britain, the United tates, Canada, France,
Japan and the European
Community.
A separate session was held with the Taiwanese, attended by about half of the members of the Forum. This followed strong objections by the PRC government to Taiwan being given equal dialogue status with the other big countries during the previous two days.
Chin-Yen said that while he was pleased to be meeting with island representatives, he would like to seen Taiwan in future years put on an equal footing with the other
dialogue partners.