TAIWAN HAS NEVER SOLD WEAPONS TO CHAD: DEFENSE MINISTER
ROC Central News Agency
2006-03-10 23:33:22
Taipei, March 10 (CNA) National Defense Minister Lee Jye Friday denied an online claim made by an American University that Taiwan sold weapons to Chad.
Lee made the remarks at a Q&A session of the Legislative Yuan, when Su Chi, a legislator of the opposition Kuomintang, asked him whether information publicized on Columbia University's Web site was true -- that Taiwan is suspected of having provided weapons to Chad in 2000 while the African nation was plagued by civil war.
Su expressed concern that if the allegation were true, Chinese Petroleum Corp. employees working on oil exploration in Chad might become targeted for retaliation.
Premier Su Tseng-chang assured Su that the Ministry of National Defense will determine if there is any truth to the rumor, and if it is unfounded the government will ask Columbia University to make an immediate correction.
Taiwan and Chad resumed diplomatic ties in August 1997.
(By Han Nai-kuo)
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