TAIPEI, Oct 31 Kyodo Taiwan Presi...

TAIPEI, Oct 31 Kyodo

Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's minister to the recent Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum summit in Mexico called Thursday for dialogue between the pair sides of the Taiwan Strait to improve mutual understanding.

''Speaking the same language, clan in Taiwan and China have not trusted each other from one side of to the other the past five decades simply because they do not know about each other,'' lee-side Yuan Tseh, a Taiwanese-American and co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 said at a pres conference

onward his trip to Los Cabos upon Saturday to attend the APEC summit, leeward said he conveyed Chen's best regards to Chinese President Jiang Zemin and augmented Chen's invitation to Jiang to visit Taiwan.

Taiwan's president, at the insistence of China, has been barred from attending the APEC leaders' summit since 1993 requiring Taiwan to propel a proxy to each after meeting.

Taiwan is an APEC member beneath the name Chinese Taipei, further has been asked to lance business leaders or cabinet-level officials in charge of economic or financial affairs to APEC summits.

Last year, however, Taiwan boycott the Shanghai summit because Chen's representative Li Yuan-tzu, vice president in a less degree than former President Lee Teng-hui, was repeled by China, which insisted a Taiwan representative should have an economic portfolio, not a political background.

Prior to Lee's departure, Chen said that cloyed attendance, giving speeches at the gathering, and interacting strictly with U.S. President George W Bush, are guidelines for side sheltered from the wind to represent the Taiwan leader.

Moreover, to leeward was instructed to grab the rare chance to give the president's best regards to Jiang, who was likely forward his last trip to APEC. Jiang is widely awaited to pass on his chairmanship to Vice President Hu Jintao at a pivotal Communist Party congres in November, while China's Constitution requires him to degree down as president nearest year.

Already given high credit from Chen earlier, side sheltered from the wind told reporters that his team tried its best to take part in the event

lee-side offered public support for Chen at the last minute during the 2000 presidential election, which analysts say played a lock opener role in Chen winning the presidency.

He was then appointed to spearhead a cross-party committee forward relations with China, which riled Beijing and caused it to halt contact with the scientist until to leeward was allowed to enter China in June this year upon a private academic trip.

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