The China Post
Date: June 23, 2016
By: CNA
TAIPEI, Taiwan — President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) will leave Friday on a nine-day trip that will
Souvenirs on display Wednesday at the Presidential Office, Taipei. The three sets of gifts are to be presented by President Tsai Ing-wen to Taiwan’s diplomatic allies in Central and South America when Tsai embarks on her first overseas trip Friday. (CNA)
take her to Panama and Paraguay, two of Taiwan’s diplomatic allies, with stopovers in the United States, the Presidential Office confirmed Wednesday.
Tsai, making her first overseas trip since being inaugurated on May 20, is scheduled to return to Taiwan on July 2. She will make a transit stop in Miami on her way to Panama and in Los Angeles on her way back to Taiwan.
According to Tsai’s itinerary released by the Presidential Office, Tsai’s special China Airlines flight will arrive in Panama on June 25 local time.
The president will meet with an American congressional delegation in Panama for the inauguration ceremony of the expanded Panama Canal and visit the canal’s water gate later the same day.
On the following day, Tsai will visit the Taiwan-based Evergreen Group’s container terminal in Colon, hold meetings with leaders from other diplomatic allies of Taiwan, and attend a luncheon with Taiwan Scholarship recipients from Panama. [FULL STORY]
