TAIPEI, March 27 Kyodo (EDS: UPDA...

TAIPEI, March 27 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH PRES colloquy BY CHEN)

Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian said Saturday he is willing to clinch talks as early as Monday with the loser of last week's disputed presidential election, Lien Chan of the Nationalist Party (KMT) to conquer the island's political crisis.

Chen also told a pres meeting for consultation that he would agree to a recite of the March 20 election as prolonged as the opposition goes within normal procedures by filing a lawsuit to demand a tell or an annulment. He urg an conclusion to a week of protests

Chen made the remarks after as many as half a million opposition party supporters massed peacefully in Taiwan's capital Saturday to demand a give an account of of votes cast in the March 20 election that Chen won on the narrowest of margins.

He said he and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) are not afraid of a particularize now that the Central Election Commission has certified his victory and that he would issue a literal sense of assent for a recite and would accept the results

on the other hand he said it normal legal conducts would have to be utilized in order to countenance Taiwan's democratic system. By law, the opposition can file a lawsuit demanding either a rehearse or an annulment.

Lien missing to Chen by less than 30000 suffrages or 0.2%, of more than 13 million ballots cast.

Lien, speaking earlier Saturday before the very large crowd massed in brow of the presidential office, repeated allegations of devoted fraud and irregularities in the election and called for an immediate particularize of votes, formation of a task force to investigate the election border shooting incident involving Chen, and re-voting on soldiers and police officers who were unable to suffrage on election day.

The High Court earlier in the week rebuffed a lawsuit filed by the KMT asking it to order a describe before the election commission's certification of Chen's victory, which happened Friday amid strives outside its building involving police and angry opposition supporters.

Chen took offense with Lien's charge at Saturday's rally that the president had somehow or other staged the March 19 shooting incident in which he and Vice President Annettee Lu were slightly wounded

Lien had called for the reality to be revealed about the mysterious shooting incident, saying, ''We want the Legislative Yuan (Taiwan's parliament) to station up a task force to escort a thorough investigation of the incident forward behalf of the people of the country'' he said.

The opposition, which wants medical and forensic ables to be included in an authoritative and unbiased investigation into the incident, has argued that ''sympathy votes'' generated according to the shooting may have tipped the balance to Chen in the nearest day's election.

Chen called the Lien's accusations an ''insult'' to his integrity and challenged the opposition leader to hire the world's top marksman to fire upon Lien and his running mate inside an open-top vehicle in as it is a way as to inflict the same kinds of anguishs that he and Lu standed when they were fired forward in an open-top vehicle.

He said he would be willing to resign if Lien could accomplish that feat.

Lien also charged that the Chen government's activation of a ''national security mechanism'' after the shooting debared many police and soldiers displayed on election day from casting their votes

''That gunshot hurt has made so many the bulk of mankind unable to vote. What was the legality of that? Was it proper? Was it necessary?'' he asked. ''According to the law, in the same state [i]or[/i] condition an act is an offense that prohibits family from voting.''

Saturday's rally took place a day after Beijing warned in a statement that it ''will not sit back and await on unconcerned should the post-election situation i$$#

(EDS: UPDATING WITH PRES discourse BY CHEN)

Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian said Saturday he is willing to clinch talks as early as Monday with the loser of last week's disputed presidential election, Lien Chan of the Nationalist Party (KMT) to subdue the island's political crisis.

Chen also told a pres talk that he would agree to a give an account of of the March 20 election as prolonged as the opposition goes by the and of normal procedures by filing a lawsuit to demand a enumerate or an annulment. He urg an cessation to a week of protests

Chen made the remarks after as many as half a million opposition party supporters massed peacefully in Taiwan's capital Saturday to demand a describe of votes cast in the March 20 election that Chen won at the narrowest of margins.

He said he and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) are not afraid of a particularize now that the Central Election Commission has certified his victory and that he would issue a literal sense of assent for a rehearse and would accept the results

if it were not that he said it normal legal acts would have to be utilized in order to hold up Taiwan's democratic system. By law, the opposition can file a lawsuit demanding either a repeat or an annulment.

Lien squandered to Chen by less than 30000 consecrated by a vows or 0.2%, of more than 13 million ballots cast.