NUC IS LIKE 'SPOILT FOOD IN A FREEZER': VICE PRESIDENT
ROC Central News Agency
2006-02-28 17:37:18
Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) Vice President Annette Lu compared the National Unification Council (NUC) Tuesday to "spoiled food in a freezer" that must be discarded.
She made the remarks in the southern Taiwan city of Chiayi after President Chen Shui-bian signed documents in Taipei to "cease the functions" of the NUC and order that the National Unification Guidelines shall also "cease to apply."
Lu was in Chiayi to campaign in support of Chen Li-chen, a legislative candidate of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) running in a Chiayi by-election scheduled for March 11.
She pointed out that the NUC's establishment was based on a 1990 resolution by the Central Standing Committee of the Kuomintang (KMT), which was the ruling party at the time, and now that the DPP has been in power for six years, there is no reason for the current government to continue a KMT policy.
Describing the NUC as food in the freezer that has already passed its expiration date, Lu said the NUC should have been discarded long ago, and that the president was merely trying to clean up the freezer.
(By Han Nai-kuo)
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