First Straits talks in 9 years start today
By Wu Jiao | China Daily | Updated: 2008-06-12 07:41
A 16-member Taiwan delegation, headed by Chiang Pin-kun, arrived in Beijing yesterday to attend the first cross-Taiwan Straits talks in nine years.
The two-day talks between the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), headed by Chiang, and the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), start today.
ARATS chairman Chen Yunlin will meet Chiang at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse this morning to discuss the possibility of starting cross-Straits chartered flights on the weekends and mainland tourists traveling to the island.
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