Lien Chan to attend cross-straits forum
(CRIENGLISH.com)
Updated: 2006-10-05 09:44 Kuomintang Honorary Chairman
Lien Chan has set out to the mainland to attend the Cross-Straits Forum on
Agricultural Cooperation, which is being held this month in the southernmost
province of Hainan, after efforts to hold it in Taipei failed.
Reports say the Honorary Chairman flew to Hong Kong Wednesday morning and
transferred to another flight headed for the mainland. Unlike his previous
trips, Lien Chan will come for private travel before attending the forum.
The forum was originally to be held in Taiwan, but was forced to change its
venue since the application to attend the forum by Chen Yunlin, Director of the
Taiwan Work Office of Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, was not
approved by Taiwan authorities.
The forum is one of the inter-party exchange programs being arranged in
accordance with the consensus reached by the CPC and Kuomintang last year.
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