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Viewing cable 07STATE151150, TAIWAN FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRACY PARTICIPATION AT BAMAKO

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07STATE151150 2007-10-31 20:24 2011-08-23 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Secretary of State
VZCZCXYZ0011
OO RUEHWEB

DE RUEHC #1150 3042040
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O R 312024Z OCT 07
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO RUEHBP/AMEMBASSY BAMAKO IMMEDIATE 0000
INFO RUEHIN/AIT TAIPEI 0000
UNCLAS STATE 151150 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PHUM TW
SUBJECT: TAIWAN FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRACY PARTICIPATION AT BAMAKO 
 
1.This is an action request.  See Para 4. 
 
2.Department has been made aware that Government of Mali, in the 
lead up to the Community of Democracies (CD), Bamako conference, is 
likely intentionally denying invitations and visas to representatives 
of the NGO, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD), as well as any 
individual holding a Taiwanese passport. 
 
3.The umbrella NGO organization, the Council for a Community of 
Democracies (CCD), which serves as a pseudo-secretariat for the 
International Steering Group for the CD Non-governmental Process, 
provided GOM with a list of NGO representatives to be invited to 
attend Bamako CD. This list included three representatives from TFD: 
Bo Tenards (US Citizen) and Dr. Wen-cheng Lin and Dr. Tzu-pao Yang 
from Taiwan. All international NGO representatives were issued 
invitations, except for Dr. Lin and Dr. Yang.  Bo Tenards, a US 
Passport holder, has been issued an invitation but is waiting to 
apply for a visa until Dr. Lin and Dr. Yang receive invitations. 
 
4.Action Request: The Ambassador should approach host government at 
a senior level to request that invitations be sent and visas granted, 
for the TFD representatives Dr. Lin and Dr. Yang, to attend Bamako 
CD. 
 
5.  Failure to issue invitations and grant visas for TFD 
representatives will likely cast a shadow over the GOM and create 
questions regarding the legitimacy of the Bamako CD. 
 
6.TFD has been a major financial supporter of NGO activity related 
to CD over the past four years. There is already speculation that the 
treatment of the TFD by GOM my cause TFD to pull its funding for the 
majority of participants it was expected to fund from Asia. 
Additionally, a greater defection from Bamako of civil society groups 
may be expected in protest to Taiwan based NGOs being granted access 
to CD. 
 
7.  Dr. Lin and Dr. Yang were denied visas en route when they sought 
to attend a meeting in Bamako in 2006 of the International Steering 
Committee.  Oumar Makalou, head of the Malian non-governmental 
process for CD, lodged a serious protest with the Foreign Ministry 
and the Presidency and was allegedly told it would not happen again. 
 
BACKGROUND 
 
8.  Bo Tenards is Director of International Cooperation for TFD and 
Director of World Forum for Democratization in Asia. 
 
9.  Dr. Lin has been president of TFD since 2006 and currently serves 
as Dean of the School of Social Sciences, national Sun Yat-sen 
University, where he is a full professor.  He currently has no 
position in the Taiwan government. From mid-2003 to mid-2004, he took 
a leave of absence from the university to serve as Senior Advisor to 
the Taiwan National Security Council, which is the only Government 
position he has ever held. 
 
10.  Dr. Yang is an advisor to TFD. He is also a Deputy Minister in 
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Taiwan government, but at the 
CD he will only be participating in his TFD status.  Dr. Yang is also 
a francophone which is why he hopes to attend this particular 
conference. 
 
11. Each year CD has been held at ministerial level (Warsaw, 2000; 
Seoul, 2002; Santiago, 2005) Taiwan was represented at an NGO level. 
At each event Taiwanese NGO representatives respected their 
non-governmental status, even though many also held positions within 
Taiwan's government at various levels. Prior to Santiago, TFD had not 
yet been established and participants therefore did not have TFD 
affiliation.  Taiwan participants at Warsaw, Seoul and Santiago are 
as follows: 
 
12. WARSAW: 
1) Ms. Myasing Yang: Current TFD vice presidents. At the time, deputy 
director of the Research and Planning Board of the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs. 
2) Legislator Bi-khim Hsiao: Currently TFD board member. At the time, 
Director of International Affairs of the Democratic Progressive Party 
(DPP). 
3) Ming-te Shih: Then Legislator. 
4) Hsin-liang Hsu: Then Chairman of the "People Rising Foundation"; 
previously Chairman of the DPP. 
5) King-yuh Chang: Then Chairman of the "Chinese Eurasian Education 
Foundation"; previously Chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council (a 
cabinet level post). 
 
13. SEOUL: 
1) Legislator Bi-khim Hsiao: Legislator at that time. 
2) Edward J. Huang: Chairman of Transparency International-Taiwan, 
and Director of the Asia Resource Center for Democracy. 
3) Vincent W.S. Yang: Assistant Director General, NGO International 
Affairs Committee, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 
 
14. SANTIAGO: (After TFD had been established): 
1) Dr. Parris Chang: TFD board member and Deputy Secretary General of 
the Taiwan NSC at that time. 
2) Dr. Anne Hsiao: Head of TFD's International Cooperation 
Department. 
3) Jeffrey H.S. Hsiao: Mid-ranking diplomat. 
4) Dr. Michael Kau: At the time TFD president as well as Deputy 
Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (the same position that 
Dr. Yang currently holds). Dr. Kau attended the final meeting of the 
Non-governmental Process in Santiago prior to the Ministerial 
Meeting. He was accompanied by Anne Hsiao, Oliver Liao (mid-ranking 
diplomat), and Bo Tenards. 
 
15.  Like Mali, all three previous host countries for CD recognize 
the One-China policy. 
 
16.  Post should direct replies and feedback to desk, with a copy to 
John Kachtik (G). 
RICE