Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/27
By: Joseph Yeh

Taipei, Dec. 27 (CNA) Head of the Bureau of Consular Affairs (BOCA) Agnes Chen (陳華玉)

stepped down Wednesday amid a furor over an error on the newly updated Taiwan e-passport, which bears an image of Washington’s Dulles International Airport rather than Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport.

“On behalf of BOCA, I apologize to the public for the major oversight and will take full administrative responsibility for the incident,” Chen said in a brief statement at a press conference.

Chen said she had met with Foreign Minister David Lee (李大維) the previous night and submitted her resignation to him. According to MOFA spokesman Andrew Lee (李憲章), the foreign minister accepted Chen’s resignation Wednesday morning.

Meanwhile, Taiwan’s top envoy to Canada Kung Chung-chen (龔中誠), who was BOCA’s chief when the new passport was designed, has been recalled, Andrew Lee said.
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