Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/05/12
By: Chen Wei-ting, Hu Yu-li and Emerson Lim
Taipei, May 12 (CNA) More than 5,000 people from the Taiwanese community in Japan and Japan’s own medical, political and business sectors have expressed support for Taiwan’s participation in the annual World Health Assembly (WHA).
Taiwanese communities in Kyushu and western Japan launched a signature campaign in March to support Taiwan’s efforts to break through China’s obstruction and participate in this year’s WHA, to be held in Geneva from May 20 to 28, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
Though Taiwan failed as expected to get an invitation to the WHA this year for a third year in a row, leaders of Taiwanese and ethnic Chinese communities in Kyushu handed the petition to Taiwan Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) during a banquet Saturday night.
At the banquet, one of Chen’s stops during a four-day visit to Kyushu, the health minister said after receiving the petition that Taiwan can be a partner in advancing global health and should not be left out of the global health network. [FULL STORY]