The China Post
Date: October 19, 2016
By: Joseph Yeh
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) declined to confirm Tuesday whether former Foreign Minister
MOFA spokeswoman Eleanor Wang speaks to reporters during a regular news briefing in Taipei on Tuesday. (Joseph Yeh, The China Post)
Mark Chen (陳唐山) was scheduled to meet with the Dalai Lama at the Forum 2000 conference in Prague.
MOFA spokeswoman Eleanor Wang said Chen, who served as foreign minister from 2004 to 2006 under the previous Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration, is attending the international conference as a special envoy of President Tsai Ing-wen.
Amid local media reports that Chen was planning to meet with the Dalai Lama, who had been invited to the forum to deliver a speech on Wednesday, Wang said the ministry had no comment.
“We have no comment on possible interactions between invited guests during the forum,” she added.
Wang’s comments came after a report made by Chinese-language online news provider Storm Media (風傳媒) late Monday that Chen would hold a one-on-one meeting with the Dalai Lama during the forum, which is scheduled for Oct. 16-19. [FULL STORY]
