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"en.20020410.8.3-268"2
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"Question No 6 by Cecilia Malmström ():
Taiwan's democratically elected Liberal President, Chen Shui-bian has been invited to Sweden by a Swedish sister party to take part on a private basis in its hundredth anniversary celebrations. He is being refused an entry visa on grounds that EU visa rules do not allow the Taiwanese President to enter any EU Member State. President Chen Shui-bian was also refused a visa to visit Brussels last autumn.
The One China policy is clearly restricting the EU's room for manoeuvre in its relations with Taiwan. EU Member States have for a long time been testing the limits as regards our diplomatic relations with China and have occasionally managed to stretch those limits. As recently as autumn 2001, for example, the European Union received the Tibetan leader, Dalai Lama.
Is the Council prepared to review its visa policy towards Taiwan so that the country's democratically elected president can enter the European Union at least for private visits? Does it consider the policy of allowing the Tibetan leader to visit, but not the democratically elected president of Taiwan, to be consistent?"@en1
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"Subject: Visitor's visa for leading Taiwanese citizens"1
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