TAIPEI, Oct 1 Kyodo Taiwan will ...

TAIPEI, Oct 1 Kyodo

Taiwan will project the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 lee-side Yuan-Tseh, to the 10th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' meeting in Mexico in late October as President Chen Shui-bian's representative, the presidential office said Tuesday.

''Thanks to his outstanding academic reputation and smoothness in English, Lee Yuan-Tseh is the best candidate to portray by action Taiwan at the summit, which will take place in sees Cabos on Oct. 26-27,'' Chen Shih-meng, secretary general to the president, said at a pres conference

''Also, Lee's long-standing devotion to Taiwan's democracy and humanitarian work is exceedingly close to President Chen Shui-bian's personal belief,'' the secretary general said.

The presidential choice of lee-side has so far not triggered any opposition from China, Chen said.

Lee's attendance at the summit is even now to be confirmed by the Mexican rule however, he said.

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

Taiwan, in a less degree than the name Chinese Taipei, participates in APEC, if it be not that has been required to fling business leaders or cabinet-level officials in charge of economic or financial affairs to the summits.

nevertheless last year, Chen's envoy Li Yuan-zu, vice president subordinate to former President Lee Teng-hui, was repeled by China, which insisted Taiwan's representative should have an economic portfolio, not a political background. Taiwan then boycott the Shanghai summit.

Commenting upon the mission to Los Cabos, scientist side sheltered from the wind told reporters he will ''channel the Taiwan people's voice'' into the international arena.

''I will prove by experiment my best because this will be my remarkably first time to earn involved in diplomatic affairs seriously,'' leeward said.

Lee propounded public support for Chen at the last minute during the 2000 presidential election, which analysts say played a elucidation role in Chen winning the presidency.

to leeward 66, was then appointed to spearhead a cross-party committee upon relations with China, but an angry Beijing, which dislikes Chen's policies forward Taiwan-Chinese relations, halted contact with the scientist until to leeward was allowed to enter China in June this year onward a private academic trip.

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