Since 1992, the Taiwanese American Council of Greater New York has promoted UN membership for Taiwan and organized the UN for Taiwan rally and march to coincide with the UN General Assembly. This year the UN for Taiwan rally and march was held on Saturday, September 14th.

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In September the UN General Assembly takes place at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. This year, the 79th session of the UN General Assembly opened on Tuesday, September 10th and will conclude on Monday, September 30th. The theme of the General Debate is “Leaving no one behind: acting together for the advancement of peace, sustainable development and human dignity for present and future generations.”

Delegates from the Taiwan United Nations Alliance or TAIUNA, an NGO from Taiwan have been coming to New York for the past twenty years to call for Taiwan’s membership in the UN.

On Friday, September 13th representatives from TAIUNA held a press conference in Ralph Bunche Park, which is across from the United Nations Headquarters. The open letter from TAIUNA Chairman Yet-Min Lin addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was read. The full letter will be posted in the Relate Links section of Talking Taiwan website for this episode. The letter urged the UN to hold a formal hearing to clarify the interpretation of UNGA Resolution 2758.

China’s distortion of Resolution 2758 has been used to block Taiwan from being included in the UN.

TAIUNA (The Taiwan United Nations Alliance) was founded on October 24, 2003: 

1. To realize UN’s purposes and to foster justice, peace and security for Taiwan and the world.

2. To promote Taiwanese understanding of and education on the UN and its related organizations.

3. To elevate the global perspectives of the Taiwanese people and to participate in such international activities as human rights protection, humanitarian assistance, and environmental protection.

4. To campaign for Taiwan’s membership in the UN and to make Taiwan a Normal State both in name and in fact in the world community.

Talking Taiwan covered TAIUNA’s press conference in Ralph Bunche Park  on Friday, September 13th. On Saturday, September 14th we stopped by the “Peace Pop-up Truck” organized by the Taipei Economic  Cultural Office of New York (TECONY)  with the theme being “UNity through Peace: Chip in with Taiwan.” Afterward we also participated in the UN for Taiwan rally and march.

Related Links:

Open letter from TAIUNA Chairman Yet-Min Lin addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres:

Peter Huang’s (Supervisor of TAIUNA) letter:

Taiwan United Nations Alliance (TAIUNA): http://www.taiwan-un-alliance.org.tw/brief-english.html

The 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (2024): https://www.unep.org/events/summit/unep-79th-session-un-general-assembly-unga-79

US refutes China’s characterization of UN Resolution 2758: https://www.voanews.com/a/7630543.html

The Distortion of UN Resolution 2758 and Limits on Taiwan’s Access to the United Nations: https://www.gmfus.org/news/distortion-un-resolution-2758-and-limits-taiwans-access-united-nations

China Is Using a UN Resolution to Further Its Claim Over Taiwan: https://thediplomat.com/2022/08/china-is-using-a-un-resolution-to-further-its-claim-over-taiwan/

What’s in a Name? A Chinese Taipei Story | Full Documentary: https://youtu.be/p8pYnsnq8x0?si=Ddksa2SSZJDWCbGG

Flags banned, signs ripped up: Why you can’t mention Taiwan at the Olympics: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/flags-banned-taiwan-olympics-chinese-taipei-rcna165502

Taiwan asks for investigation into a fan at Olympic badminton having a sign taken away and ripped up: https://apnews.com/article/2024-olympics-taiwan-china-273274375d4ae6221b0aa17d1dfe2e7e

Security guard snatches bubble tea sign from Taiwanese fan at Olympic badminton final: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/5914949

The limits of global health diplomacy: Taiwan’s observer status at the world health assembly: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4197227/

SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome): https://www.who.int/health-topics/severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome#tab=tab_1

Taiwan Cites SARS in Bid to Join WHO (an article from the Washington Post): https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/05/10/taiwan-cites-sars-in-bid-to-join-who/d9840ee5-19d9-41e4-9eb5-b4748bc25f71/

An article on how Taiwan has been so successful in managing the Coronavirus written by Brian Bih-Jeng Chang and Tai-Yuan Chiu, Ready for a long fight against the COVID-19 outbreak: an innovative model of tiered primary health care in Taiwan: https://bjgpopen.org/content/early/2020/04/07/bjgpopen20X101068

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Progressive_Party

Taiwan People’s Party (TPP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_People%27s_Party

Kuomintang (KMT): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang

FAPA (Formosan Association for Public Affairs): https://fapa.org/

Taiwan International Solidarity Act (S. 2995): https://fapa.org/taiwan-international-solidarity-act-s-2995/

Taiwanese Association of America (TAA): https://www.taa-usa.org/

Keep Taiwan Free: https://keeptaiwanfree.org/

Keep Taiwan Free on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KeepTaiwanFree/

Keep Taiwan Free on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keeptaiwanfree/

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