China's military provocation against Taiwan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Highlighting the necessity and urgency of my participation in ICAO

China's military provocation against Taiwan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Highlighting the necessity and urgency of my participation in ICAO – yqqlm

2022-09-30T03:25:13.463Z

Republican Senator Ted Cruz and Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee jointly led the proposal on the "Ensuring Taiwan Aviation and Safety Act" on the 29th Eastern Time. Ask the U.S. executive branch to develop strategies to assist Taiwan in meaningfully participating in the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), including annual meetings, technical meetings, events, and related mechanisms. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its sincere gratitude to the two Senators Cruz and Merkley for their strong support for Taiwan through their bipartisan legislative actions. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs mentioned that the two senators who proposed the proposal emphasized through a press release that ICAO could not successfully achieve its goal of ensuring flight safety without Taiwan’s participation, which would directly jeopardize ICAO’s credibility as an international multilateral organization, and it would be even more important to ICAO. The result of the CCP’s political pressure bowing its head. Senator Merkley also stressed that Taiwan's meaningful participation in ICAO would make the organization more effective.

U.S. Republican Senator Cruz of Texas.

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[Reporter Yang Chengyu/Taipei Report] Republican Senator Ted Cruz and Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee jointly led the proposal on the 29th Eastern Time to introduce the "Ensuring Taiwan Aviation and Security Act" Taiwan Aviation and Safety Act), which requires the U.S. executive branch to develop strategies to assist Taiwan in meaningfully participating in the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), including annual meetings, technical meetings, events, and related mechanisms.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its sincere gratitude to the two Senators Cruz and Merkley for their strong support for Taiwan through their bipartisan legislative actions.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs mentioned that the two senators who proposed the proposal emphasized through a press release that ICAO could not successfully achieve its goal of ensuring flight safety without Taiwan’s participation, which would directly jeopardize ICAO’s credibility as an international multilateral organization, and it would be even more important to ICAO. The result of the CCP’s political pressure bowing its head.

Senator Merkley also stressed that Taiwan's meaningful participation in ICAO would make the organization more effective.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that China's recent military provocative actions in the sea and airspace around Taiwan have seriously affected international air traffic, endangered regional stability and global civil aviation safety, and highlighted the need for Taiwan to participate in the ICAO platform and work with all civil aviation authorities around the world to maintain international aviation safety. necessity and urgency.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs once again called on ICAO to face up to the actual needs of international aviation safety and the increasingly severe challenges in the region, accept Taiwan's participation in ICAO, and jointly contribute professionalism and dedication to global aviation safety.

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China's military provocation against Taiwan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Highlighting the necessity and urgency of my participation in ICAO – yqqlm