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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will drop for the first time in 17 years its annual bid to join the United Nations as island President Ma Ying-jeou seeks peace with long-time rival and U.N. heavyweight China, the foreign ministry said on Friday.

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...for membership-already watered down last year to seeking merely "meaningful participation" in UN activities-Taiwan will not even try to join UN bodies that require members to be states. Instead it is only asking to join two specific UN...

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...give police the authority to break up any rally that blocked traffic. President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) last month urged the legislature to pass two UN covenants, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International...

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...outstanding loan. Traditionally, Paraguayan diplomats at the United Nations backed regular proposals at the UN General Assembly sessions for the return of the Republic of China into the United Nations' Organization. However, in the fall...

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...human rights on the other Members of the Wild Strawberry Student Movement protest in front of Taipei Guest House as President Ma Ying-jeou signed two UN human rights covenants there yesterday morning. The students claim that the draft...

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...flights, the opening of Taiwan to Chinese tourists and investors, and the attendance by a delegation from Taiwan as observers at the United Nations' World Health Assembly in May, for the first time since China took Taiwan's UN seat in 1971.

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...diplomatic allies to ask the UN General Assembly to discuss Taiwan's membership but will seek to join some UN organisations, the United Daily News said. The 64th UN General Assembly will open Sep 15 in New York, and its general debate will...

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...return, an expert attending a cross-strait forum said yesterday. "But Taiwan has also made some concessions too, including not seeking UN membership this year," he said. "With Beijing making so many concessions, some people are worried...

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...allies more desperate for help. With about 170 diplomatic allies to Taiwan's 23, China has continually blocked the island's bid to join the United Nations or affiliated organizations. But relations across the Taiwan Strait, in...

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