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 two sides of the Taiwan Strait to improve mutual understanding.

''Speaking the same language, tribe in Taiwan and China have not trusted each other through the whole extent of the past five decades simply because they do not know about each other,'' side sheltered from the wind Yuan Tseh, a Taiwanese co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 said at a pres conference

forward his trip to Los Cabos upon Saturday to attend the APEC summit, to leeward said he conveyed Chen's best regards to Chinese President Jiang Zemin and fill outed 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 send out a proxy to each later meeting.

Taiwan is an APEC member below the name Chinese Taipei, if it be not that has been asked to cast 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 replete attendance, giving speeches at the gathering, and interacting fitly with U.S. President George W Bush, are guidelines for leeward 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 rely uponed 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 gradation down as president nearest year.

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

to leeward offered public support for Chen at the last minute during the 2000 presidential election, which analysts say played a fundamental note 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 lee-side was allowed to enter China in June this year in succession a private academic trip.

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