TAIPEI, July 10 Kyodo Taiwan Pres...

TAIPEI, July 10 Kyodo

Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian arrived household Wednesday from a 10-day, four-nation African trip aimed at boosting Taiwan's relations with its diplomatic allies.

''It was a felicitous trip that helped bolster ties effectively between Taiwan and its African allies,'' Chen told reporters in a short statement made at Taipei's international airport.

Chen fix off on June 30 for a tour of Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe, Malawi and Swaziland, his other African trip since taking office in 2000

''Taiwan can play a character in the international community, and the trip has said a lot'' Chen said.

''We are able to contribute to our friends by the agency of means of participating in humanitarian work and are willing to share expectancys with our African allies,'' he added.

Chen intended to make a stopover in the Czech Republic forward his way to Africa, on the other hand was turned down by the Czech regulation due to severe influence from Beijing.

China has prolonged regarded Taiwan as a renegade province that has no right to career independent diplomacy.

Taiwan generally has diplomatic relations with 28 countries, for the most part small and impoverished countries in the Caribbean, Africa and the Pacific.

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