Michel Lu Quotations

We respect the way the money...is used...but surveillance would not just be good for local people but also for Taiwan too.

What we care about most is whether the aid is successful.

Under political pressure and lure of financial reward, Senegal has restored diplomatic relations with China and decided to maintain with us only economic, business and cultural ties,

It is not to be used for personal reasons or by individual personalities.

Some foreign countries fear Taiwan is changing the status quo because they have insufficient information.

The accusation is unfair. All our aid programs are for local developments. We didn't use money to interfere in the local election. As a democracy, we will not do such a thing.

We received the appeal for help. There are about 20 crew members on board each ship.

We have to wait for confirmation (of the reports) from our embassy. After this, we will see what we will do.

We didn't receive such kind of information. We will continue our communications with the U.S..

When they are done, both sides will make a public announcement.

We passed on our protest, saying no shooting should have been done.

We will continue to communicate through existing channels. We may send delegations abroad.

Both sides should try to clarify what happened and take measures to improve on their mistakes.

We created it inside the ministry for special issues. When there is a (major) diplomatic issue, we just activate it.

We do not know whether these were pirates disguised as military personnel in order to commit the crime. We need more time to clear up the matter.

Duplicate copies of our entry which contains official titles of all of our WTO mission members have also been distributed to missions of all other member states.

The six allied countries have received invitations from Beijing but they have certainly decided not to go.

The three ships have set sail from Somalia, and the crew are all safe.

Russia has close relations with China, so it's not surprising that it criticized Taiwan. However, Russia's reaction also revealed that it was unaware that China opposed the council and guidelines when they were first formulated, and also that Taiwan's decision was made in order to reinforce democracy and respect the right of the people to determine their own future.

This is not final. We are still in the phase of reviewing the issue in question and seeking opinions from all sides. We'll continue to strengthen our communications with Washington on this issue.

The United States supports our participation in the World Health Assembly.

The Republic of China (Taiwan) deeply regretted this and decided to break relations with Senegal immediately and stop all aid programs to the country to safeguard the dignity and sovereignty of our country.

This is urgent as they have only one plane for transport to other countries.

Taiwan will continue to step up communications to allay U.S. concerns about President Chen's remarks.

The visit has nothing to do with the matter. It had been previously arranged.

It's regrettable that the WTO Secretariat has once again thrown away its neutrality under China's pressure and arbitrarily deleted the titles of members of our permanent mission at the WTO headquarters.

If necessary we will make proposals to the minister or even the president.

In total, China has financed US$15 million in aid for Fiji for this year alone.

I can confirm that we had these two cases of aid to Nauru but they both were part of an existing aid and cooperation program.

The foreign ministry has filed a strong protest while summoning the Philippines' deputy representative to Taipei.