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Membership refused

A little over a month ago, Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian submitted a fresh application for the country’s admission to the United Nations. Within days, the U.N. Secretariat answered the request with an outright rejection. This is now the 15th year in a row that Taiwan has been denied participation in this august global body. This year, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon took it upon himself to determine that Taiwan’s letter of application “could not be received”, despite the fact that it was not his decision to make. He defended his decision by citing U.N. Resolution 2758; he said this resolution asserts that Taiwan is a part of the People’s Republic of China. — © Guardia n Newspapers Limited, 2007

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