Taiwan, China to review agreements already signed
ROC Central News Agency
2013/06/21 17:14:23
Taipei, June 21 (CNA) Taiwan and China have agreed to hold a meeting later this year to review how well previous agreements signed between the two sides have been carried out.
The consensus on the issue was reached at the latest round of formal high-level talks between the two sides in Shangai on Friday.
Lin Join-sane, chairman of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), proposed to hold the meeting, which would be the second of its kind, to protect the public's rights and enhance the implementation of past agreements.
Lin said there was still room for improvement in carrying out the the crime-fighting and legal assistance pact signed in 2009, especially in terms of repatriating Taiwanese economic criminals hiding out in China and improving the rights of Taiwanese detainees there.
Both sides also agreed to discuss the avoidance of double taxation and the establishment of representative offices in each other's territory in the next round of high-level talks. So far nine rounds of talks have been held since President Ma Ying-jeou took office in May 2008, ending a 10-year suspension of cross-Taiwan Strait negotiations.
Cooperation in earthquake monitor and weather forecast was also listed as a possible topic for future talks.
Taiwan and China inked an Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) in 2010. Under the ECFA framework, Taiwan and China signed an investment protection pact with China in 2012 and an agreement on trade in services Friday.
Taiwan hopes to complete negotiations with China on two other deals under the ECFA framework -- a trade pact covering goods and a dispute settlement agreement -- by year-end, Lin said.
(By Eva Feng and Ann Chen)
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