DPP lawmakers call for foreign mission renamingBy Lu Yi-hsuan and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe government should use “Taiwan” for its 91 de facto embassies in foreign countries, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators Chiu Chih-wei (邱志偉) and Hsu Chih-chieh (許智傑) said yesterday. The lawmakers made the remark at a news conference at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei calling on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to establish a task force for this purpose. The Taiwan Representative Office in the Republic of Somaliland, inaugurated last year, is the only representative office using the name, and a planned office in Lithuania is expected to become the second. All Taiwan’s representative offices — including those in the US and Japan — should be renamed, Chiu said. Ministry spokeswoman Joanne Ou (歐江安) said that the ministry appreciates the lawmakers’ suggestion, but a representative office can only be renamed with the host nation’s consent.

Source: Taipei Times September 08, 2021 15:56 UTC