Published Date: 2021-12-06
A government
delegation from Slovakia has arrived in Taiwan for trade talks. The 43-member
group, which landed in Taiwan on Sunday evening, is the highest-level
delegation Slovakia has sent to Taiwan in almost twenty years.
Taiwan Economics
Minister Wang Mei-hua says that she is glad European countries are showing
interest in Taiwan, and optimistic about the prospects for promoting greater
cooperation.
Wang says talks
between Taiwan and the Slovak delegation will focus on issues of trade and
industrial cooperation.
The Slovak
delegation, led by Deputy Economic Minister Karol Galek, includes 18
representatives from Slovak government ministries. Each of the remaining 25
members is a representative of a Slovak manufacturing company, with expertise
in fields ranging from aerospace to biotechnology and semiconductors.
The Slovak
delegation’s visit comes less than two months after a Taiwanese trade
delegation stopped in Slovakia during a tour of Eastern Europe. That visit to
Slovakia in October resulted in the signing of seven Memoranda of Understanding
(MOUs) aimed at increasing trade and technology cooperation between Taiwan and
Slovakia.
Minister Wang
Mei-hua has remained coy about signing any further MOUs during the Slovak delegation’s
visit to Taiwan. She says government authorities will make more details public
in due course.