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WHO did the right thing: Calling Taiwan a province of China

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2011-5-10 11:51


What happened at WHO is a new embarrassment as Taiwan is desperately struggling to participate into global affairs in the name of "sovereign state". It is not the first failure and won't be the last if Taiwan, a inalienable part of China, doesn't drop the unrealistic hope.



Senior WHO officials sent out an internal memo on Sept. 14 last year asking WHO agencies to be kept aware that Taiwan is a “Province of China,” pursuant to an arrangement with Beijing.



The confidential memo, released by a Taiwan lawmaker yesterday and published by the Liberty Times the same day, says that procedures used by the WHO to facilitate relations with Taiwan and how these relations operate were subject to Chinese — and not Taiwanese — approval.



The authenticity of the document has been confirmed with the WHO, which is based in Geneva, Switzerland.


Centered on the implementation of the International Health -Regulations (IHR) — a set of global public health rules under the WHO, which Taiwan joined in 2009 — the memo specifically says that the correct terminology for Taiwan is “the Taiwan Province of China.”


Taking into account the representation of China in the WHO, health agencies should refrain “from actions which could constitute or be interpreted as recognition of a separate status of Taiwanese authorities and institutions from China,” it said.


The memo makes particular mention to an arrangement communicated by the WHO Permanent Mission of China to WHO Director-General Margaret Chan (陳馮富珍).


That arrangement “allows certain interactions and communications between the WHO Secretariat and technical health authorities in Taipei” regarding the IHR, the memo said.


Having exited the UN, the WHO’s parent body, in 1971, Taiwan later made 12 failed attempts to join the WHO under the designation “Chinese Taipei.”


As a result, government officials have lauded Taiwan’s inclusion in the IHR and as an observer in the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 2009 as a “breakthrough” in international relations, ostensibly the result of warming ties between Taipei and Beijing.


Former Taiwan health cheif Yeh Ching-chuan said in 2009 that participation in the WHA was the result of “direct communications” with the WHO and did not include Beijing.


Health and foreign affairs officials have also praised the wording for Taiwan’s inclusion in the IHR as “Taipei” and in the WHA as “Chinese Taipei.”


The invitation extended by the IHR was addressed to the “CDC [Centers for Disease Control] Director in Taipei.”


However, underlying those appearances, the memo shows that Taiwan’s “correct terminology” used internally at the WHO is still consistent with past classifications, such as the 2005 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between China and the WHO.


“There has been no change in the status of Taiwan Province of China within the WHO,” the memo instructs WHO officials to say if asked about the arrangement with Beijing. “Information related to the Taiwan Province of China must be listed or shown as falling under China and not separately as if they referred to a state.”


The revelation comes at a sensitive time for Ma as his administration prepares to send its third delegation to the annual WHA meeting, which will take place from Monday until May 25.


The delegation is to participate under the name “Chinese Taipei.”


In the legislature, government officials faced tough questions over the controversy, with Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators requesting that the administration boycott the WHA meeting to protest the memo.


“What this shows is that Taiwan’s official designation at the WHO is as a province of China and nothing else. All these other names are a sham,” said DPP Legislator Kuan Bi-ling, who released the memo to the media.


In a statement, the party called the information a “slap in the face” for the Ma administration, while DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen called it a “serious” and “regrettable” incident.


“If this becomes Taiwan’s method of participating in international organizations, it will have a deep impact on our global position and international space,” she said.


DPP Legislator Tien Chiu-chin said to current Taiwan health chief Chiu Wen-ta, who will lead the delegation to the WHA meeting next week: “If you don’t speak up [during the WHA meeting] to defend Taiwan’s ‘sovereignty’, it means that you accept the [WHO’s] MOU.”


Supported by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers, Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials vowed to lodge an official protest with the WHO authorities in Geneva.


“Our government won’t accept the political stance outlined in the documents and will express a most strenuous protest,” the ministry wrote in a statement.


However, it said that the delegation would go ahead as planned.


During the lunch break, the National Security Council called an impromptu meeting to coordinate the government’s response strategy.


At a press conference following the meeting, Government Information Office cheif Philip Yang denied that the memorandum proved that the approach adopted by the Ma administration to participate in the WHA “humiliated the ‘nation’ and forfeited its ‘sovereignty’.”



"Some [DPP] lawmakers have described [the government’s strategy to participate in the WHA] as a goat falling prey to a tiger, but I really have to respond with this: ‘How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair?'" Yang said.
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