Taiwan Challenges UN Exclusion on Sidelines of COP26 Summit
- Delegation head says island’s omission from meeting ‘unfair’
- U.S. has called for greater role for Taiwan in world events
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As the world’s powers wrestle over the future of the planet in Glasgow, another politically fractious issue will play out on the sidelines of the COP26 summit -- Taiwan’s exclusion from international organizations.
Two weeks after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for Taiwan to have a greater role at the United Nations, a delegation from Taipei, led by Deputy Environment Minister Shen Chih-hsiu, is set to test whether countries are willing to engage with them on the sidelines of the summit and risk igniting the ire of Beijing.