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Lisbon — At a maritime conference in Lisbon, representatives of small Pacific nations in Palau attacked the United Nations on Friday for not allowing Taiwanese to join the delegation list.
"The United Nations has excluded 23 million people from Taiwan from the conversation," the delegation said at the closing ceremony of the conference. "They were not given a badge and were not allowed to be part of our delegation just because they had a Taiwanese passport.
" We did this We see it as a violation of our sovereignty ... The issue of the sea is a global issue and we want all of us to cooperate without discrimination. "
Taiwan claims that China is its territory is not a member of the United Nations and its citizens cannot participate in UN events on behalf of Taiwan, which is largely excluded from international institutions. ing.
The U.S. delegation said it was "a long-standing practice that each member state could decide on the composition of the delegation," and it was up to Palau and Tuvalu that Taiwanese members were also blocked from attending. He added that there is. Decide whether to include Taiwanese people.
"The credential committee should not have pressured them to remove these individuals from the delegation," the US delegation said.
Tuvalu's Foreign Minister Simon Kofe withdrew from the meeting after China challenged the recognition of the three Taiwanese delegations included in Tuvalu's delegation, Radio New Zealand said on Monday. Reported.
After Palau's intervention, a Chinese representative said it was "regrettable" that Taiwan's "problem" was raised, "Taiwan is part of China and cannot attend UN conferences. It's possible. " (Report by Catalina Demony, edited by David Gregorio)
