Taiwan drops annual U.N. bid as China relations warm

2009/09/03 23:34:41 @Reuters: International News

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. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=4nCLQ1FdqJk:GqXmDTq0kdI:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=4nCLQ1FdqJk:GqXmDTq0kdI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=4nCLQ1FdqJk:GqXmDTq0kdI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=4nCLQ1FdqJk:GqXmDTq0kdI:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=4nCLQ1FdqJk:GqXmDTq0kdI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/4nCLQ1FdqJk" height="1" width="1"/
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