Taiwan vows to continue fight to join UN despite 12th failed bid
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TAIPEI: Taiwan vowed to continue its fight to join the United Nations despite its 12th consecutive failure to gain a seat due to opposition from rival China.
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Kidnapping of three workers of the United Nations would not postpone the outcome of the historic presidential elections, a spokesman of the joint UN-Afghan election commission said Saturday here.
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Taiwan pledged Thursday to press on with its diplomatic battle for a seat at the United Nations after the world body turned down its 15th bid for membership amid opposition from China.
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Taiwan makes it first bid for UN membership using its own name in a move dismissed by China.
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The Olympic torch will not stop in Taiwan en route to the Beijing Games in 2008, Taiwanese officials said on Friday after talks broke down with China which considers the self-ruled island its sovereign territory.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan, July 7 -- President Chen Shui-bian said Taiwan will press ahead with a controversial referendum on whether the self-ruled island should apply for U.N. membership under the name Taiwan, dismissing U.S. objections as appeasement of China.
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Taiwan's president kicks off a nationwide torch relay to highlight the island's bid to join the United Nations.
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Armed conflict will be unavoidable if  Taiwan keeps provoking China and pushing for independence, one  of Beijing's top Taiwan policymakers said on Monday, but he  spelt out a condition for reopening dialogue.
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Taiwan lost its bid for representation in the United Nations for the 12th year Wednesday, with no country objecting to the General Assembly president's call to reject a request from the island's supporters to place the issue before the world body's 191 member states.
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Taiwan is considering applying to join the United Nations under the island's own name, a move that China would see as a provocative declaration of independence by a renegade province.
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About 250,000 people demonstrated in two Taiwan cities on Saturday to back the island's doomed efforts at securing United Nations membership, a move condemned by rival Beijing and rejected by ally Washington.
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The Taiwanese cabinet is to hold a referendum on joining the United Nations under the name &quot;Taiwan,&quot; following a policy reversal on Thursday.
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Taiwan launched its latest bid to join the United Nations in dramatic fashion -- not with a knock on UN doors but in a message beamed through outer space.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said in Beijing early Thursday that facts have shown Taiwan, as part of China, is not qualified at all to join in the United Nations which is made up of sovereign countries.
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TAIPEI - Taiwan denied that the island&#39;s nuclear weapons programme - abandoned in the 1980s - involved experimenting with separating plutonium.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian  made his case for U.N. membership in an unusual satellite news  conference on Wednesday, saying his country was the victim of  "political apartheid" engineered by China.
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Taiwan's leader on Saturday promised to make an "important announcement" in his National Day speech that will improve icy relations with rival China and strengthen ties with the United States &#151; the island's most important friend.