Minister Wu touts links with Prague‘UNITED WE STAND’: The foreign minister urged Taiwan and the Czech Republic ‘to work with and support each other’ in the face of worldwide threats to democracyBy Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporterTaiwan and the Czech Republic share the determination to defend democracy and freedom, Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) told a forum in Prague yesterday, calling on democratic countries to unite against authoritarianism. Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu, right, receives a silver medal for international guests from Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil at the senate in Prague yesterday. Wu is part of a delegation to Europe that has since Sunday been visiting Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Moreover, a 66-person trade and investment delegation is visiting Lithuania, after leaving the Czech Republic on Tuesday. Taiwan and Lithuania have agreed to establish representative offices in each other’s capitals, despite pressure from the Chinese government.

Source: Taipei Times October 28, 2021 04:11 UTC