Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/22
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan

Taipei, March 22 (CNA) Taiwan and the European Union (EU) concluded their first annual

Mercedes Garcia Perez (back row, center)

human rights consultations in Taipei Thursday, discussing such issues as abolition of the death penalty and promotion of equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community.

The delegation from the EU was led by Mercedes Garcia Perez, head of the Division for Human Rights in the European External Action Service, the union’s diplomatic service, while the Taiwan delegation was headed by Minister without Portfolio Lo Ping-chen (羅秉成).

In a joint press release issued by the European Economic and Trade Office, the EU’s representative office in Taiwan, the EU said that consultations were held “in a friendly, open and constructive atmosphere.”    [FULL  STORY]