Taipei Times
Date: Dec 21, 2016
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is set to embark on Jan. 7 on a nine-day overseas state visit to four of the nation’s diplomatic allies in Central America, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced yesterday, but added that the locations for Tsai’s transit stops are still being arranged.

Speaking at a morning news conference at the Presidential Office, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Javier Hou (侯清山) said Tsai is due to visit Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador from Jan. 7 to Jan. 15.

Tsai is to stay one night in Honduras before departing on Jan. 9 for Nicaragua, where the president is to stay for two nights, during which she is scheduled to attend the inauguration ceremony of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on Jan. 10.

She is to head to Guatemala on Jan. 11 before moving on to El Salvador the next day. She is set to return to Taiwan on the evening of Jan. 15.    [FULL  STORY]