WASHINGTON—
Former Speaker Francois de Rugy, who led a French National Assembly delegation to visit Taiwan, reiterated in Taipei that if there is no peace in the Taiwan Strait, there will be no stability. He condemned all threats.
Dai Hujie made the above remarks at a press conference in Taipei on Friday (December 17).
Dai Hujie introduced a resolution to support Taiwan’s participation in international organizations in the French National Assembly in November this year. The resolution was finally passed by the National Assembly with an overwhelmingly high vote. Dai Hujie stood for peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait during the debate in the National Assembly and condemned all threats in the Taiwan Strait.
Dai Hujie, who once served as the chairman of the French National Assembly, has always been friendly to Taiwan and currently serves as the chairman of the Taiwan Friendship Group of the French National Assembly. He led five cross-party members of the French National Assembly to Taipei on Wednesday and paid a five-day visit to Taiwan.
President Tsai Ing-wen met with Dai Hujie and his delegation from the French National Assembly at the Presidential Palace on Thursday, and praised the French guests as “Taiwan’s best friends.”
“Taiwan is committed to strengthening cooperation with France and other partners with similar ideas in the European Union in order to contribute to the peace and stability of the Indo-Pacific and the development and prosperity of the world,” Tsai Ing-wen said.
Tsai Ing-wen also said that in recent years, Taiwan and France have had close cooperation in the fields of trade, disease prevention, technology and energy, and there are still many opportunities for cooperation in the areas of supply chain restructuring, information security and technological innovation in the future.
During the meeting, Dai Hujie not only said “Taiwan-French friendship” in Chinese, but also presented to Tsai Ing-wen a text frame approved by the French National Assembly to support Taiwan’s participation in international organizations. He also explained that when the resolution was voted on, there were 9 political groups in the National Assembly. As a result, 7 political groups voted in favor. In addition, French government officials also spoke positively on the Taiwan issue in the National Assembly debate, encouraging cross-strait dialogue to maintain peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
Dai Hujie told Tsai Ing-wen that France and Taiwan should develop fruitful cooperation, especially in the field of economic development, including semiconductors and renewable energy. Dai Hujie also hopes that France and Taiwan will also strengthen cooperation in tackling climate change and preventing and fighting epidemics.
At the press conference on Friday, Dai Hujie specifically pointed out that the resolution passed by the French National Assembly in November to support Taiwan and participate in international organizations has three special significance. The first is that the French National Assembly rarely votes on international issues; the second is that the resolution is supported by the ruling and opposition parties; and the third is that both houses of the French parliament passed the resolution.
Frederique Dumas, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly in the delegation, wore the name “I am Taiwan” on his chest when attending the press conference. Dumas also chanted the slogan “I am Taiwan” when he debated the resolution to support Taiwan in the French National Assembly.
“Many French people don’t know much about the situation in the Taiwan Strait, and they look at it from the perspective of the opposition between the United States and China. But it is actually the opposition between democracy and authoritarianism,” Dumar said.
Duma specifically pointed out that France is a country that has nurtured many democratic thinkers, so it should support democratic Taiwan.
“The future of Taiwan also involves the future of mankind. I call out that I am Taiwan, but in fact I think everyone should be Taiwanese,” Duma said.
Another member of the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Jean-Luc Reitzer, also spoke at the press conference and pointed out that this visit to Taiwan is not to hold a hostile attitude towards China, but to support the democratic system and support The principle that people have the right to determine their own destiny.
“The people of Taiwan have the right to decide to be Taiwanese,” Haize said.
Heze also supports freedom of navigation in the Asia-Pacific region, “because it is at stake for economic exchanges.”
During the visit of the French National Assembly delegation to Taiwan, in addition to visiting a series of economic and cultural facilities, they will also meet with Executive Yuan Su Zhenchang, Legislative Yuan President You Xikun, Foreign Minister Wu Zhaoxie, and the Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Mainland Affairs Council and Environmental Protection Agency. Waiting for the head of the ministry.
Dai Hujie and his entourage are the second French congressional delegation to visit Taiwan after Alain Richard, chairman of the French Senate’s Taiwan Friends Group, led a Senate cross-party delegation to Taiwan more than two months in October this year.
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