Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/08/27
By Lu Hsin-hui, Wang Cheng-chung and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, Aug. 27 (CNA) The Presidential Office on Monday dismissed a newspaper report
Presidential Office spokesman Alex Huang (CNA file photo)
that former Premier Lin Chuan (林全) will replace People First Party Chairman James Soong (宋楚瑜) as head of Taiwan’s delegation to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ summit in November.
The report’s information regarding this issue was fabricated and Taiwan’s plan to form a delegation to the APEC summit will be made public after it has been finalized, Presidential Office spokesman Alex Huang (黃重諺) said.
APEC is one of the most important official multilateral economic cooperation forums in which Taiwan participates. Soong, who has served as Taiwan’s envoy to the summit over the past two years, has made great contributions to bolstering awareness of Taiwan’s development in the forum and President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) was grateful for his efforts, Huang said.
The 2018 APEC leaders’ meeting is slated for November in Papua New Guinea and the plan on appointing a representative to lead Taiwan’s delegation to the forum has yet to be hammered out, according to Huang. [FULL STORY]
