The China Post
Date: September 29, 2016
By: Joseph Yeh

The Foreign Ministry respects the decision made by some of the nation’s diplomatic allies not to speak up for Taiwan during the just concluded U.N. General Assembly session, a ministry spokeswoman has said.

Ministry spokeswoman Eleanor Wang told reporters in Taipei that representatives of some of Taiwan’s allies decided not to speak up for the R.O.C. at the U.N. summit, possibly “due to their own concerns.”

“Some allies may have had other more pressing domestic or regional issues they wanted to address during the U.N. assembly,” she told reporters when asked to comment on the issue.

According to the ministry, 13 of the 22 total diplomatic allies of the R.O.C. voiced support this year for Taiwan’s participation in U.N.-related agencies during the U.N. General Assembly held from Sept. 13-26 at U.N. Headquarters in New York.     [FULL  STORY]