DPP LAWMAKER FIRES ANOTHER SALVO AGAINST ROC'S U.S. REPRESENTATIVE
ROC Central News Agency
2006-02-06 19:10:33
Taipei, Feb. 6 (CNA) A lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) continued Monday to take Taiwan's representative to Washington David Ta-wei Lee to task for allegedly failing to do his duty in allaying U.S. concerns over President Chen Shui-bian's proposal to consider getting rid of the National Unification Council (NUC) and the National Unification Guidelines.
DPP Legislator Trong Chai fired a similar salvo against Lee the previous day. In rebuttal, Lee said that he had communicated repeatedly with U.S. officials over the past week.
But Chai said that Lee should also work with the media, including sending letters and holding news conferences, claiming that by so doing, the media "will report in favor of Taiwan."
Lee also failed to invite U.S. think tanks, academics and congressmen to speak up for Taiwan at critical moments, which Chai claimed is "dereliction of duty."
Chai said that if Lee fails to do everything he says, Lee is certainly not "capable" and should be replaced.
Chai also claimed that no-one is pulling his strings, adding that he "will not accept the post of ROC representative to the United States and there is "no need" to speculate on his motive for vilifying Lee.
U.S. officials have expressed concern after President Chen Shui-bian's proposal Jan. 29 that it might be time to serioulsy consider scrapping the NUC, which is an organization set up by the former Kuomintang administration to promote the eventual unification of Taiwan and China and is therefore considered by Beijing as evidence that the island is not moving toward de jure independence, which Beijing has threatened to stop with force.
(By Lilian Wu)
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