UNITED NATIONS REFUSES TAIWAN IDS AS ENTRY TO HUMAN RIGHTS FORUM|聯合國要求我3師生 持台胞證旁聽會議

On June 12th three National Chung Cheng University students and their teacher went to Vienna and wanted to use their ROC passports to change documents to enter a human rights forum as auditors. They were denied entry on the grounds that the organiser said that ROC 'is not a country'. Their ROC passports were refused and they were told they had to use Taiwan Compatriot Passes (intended for ROC nationals traveling to China) to enter. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was intolerable that the United Nations persisted in this type of discrimination. On June 12th three National Chung Cheng University students and their teacher tried to enter a human rights forum using their ROC passports to register and get entry cards. The person responsible for issuing entry documents even told them that 'Taiwan was not a country.' They were told they had to use ROC compatriot passes, which are intended only for use for ROC nationals to enter China. The four were understandably angry. Two years ago DPP Legislator Tsai Yi-yu had attended the same forum and used his ROC passport to enter. ==TSAI YI-YU DPP Legislator== Using the name of the Republic of China is one very important reason why we are shut out of the international arena. The DPP has an opportunity to speak and should say that in the international arena we should just openly use the name Taiwan and not continue to use the name Republic of China anymore. Just after the incident, the teacher Liu Huang Lee-juan immediately posted on FB saying that before Taiwan's young generation could seek assistance with anything they would be first quizzed on what their nationality was and what documents they had. If breaking off diplomatic relations was a not a crisis, and being forced to use the China compatriots' pass was not a crisis, what exactly did the government feel was a crisis? Even the United Nations Human Rights Council asked Taiwan people to use compatriot passes, so who was leading who? Her anger was palpable. Blue-camp legislators believe that it is an indisputable fact that cross-strait relations have gone downhill. ==LIN TEH-FU KMT Legislator== Before we could use the Republic of China, now you want us to change our name, so our whole diplomatic space has been diminished. Even the United Nations treats us like that. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that as soon as it was informed of the situation, it, in turn, informed the United Nations in Geneva that such a practice was unacceptable and was in violation of the United Nations' own charter. The ROC would not accept this diminution and would contact diplomatic allies and friends hoping to correct the situation as soon as possible. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR 聯合國發生歧視台灣事件，12號有三名中正大學學生和老師赴日內瓦，打算用台灣護照更換證件，入場旁聽人權理事會會議，卻被承辦人員以"台灣不是一個國家"為由，拒絕台灣護照，並稱用台胞證才能換證。對此外交部發出嚴正聲明，不會接受聯合國這種歧視性做法。 三位中正大學學生和老師，12號在打算進入聯合國人權理事會旁聽，沒想到在入口處要用台灣護照換入場證件，就被刁難，甚至還被換證人員點名"台灣不是一個國家"，說台灣護照不是有效文件，得台胞證才能換證，讓同行老師和同學相當憤怒。2年前才去過聯合國，當時以護照換證的民進黨立委蔡易餘直言不可思議，也強調台灣應用台灣的名字走出去。 ==民進黨立委 蔡易餘== 去框架在中華民國的名義 確實是讓我們在國際上 走不出去的一個很重要的原因 民進黨有機會的話 應該也來檢討說 未來我們在國際上 是不是大大方方的用台灣 不要繼續再用中華民國 當時在場的老師劉黃麗娟事後在臉書發文，認為台灣孩子求助前，竟然得先回答自己是什麼人，使用什麼證件，斷交不是危機，被迫使用台胞證不是危機，政府知道什麼是危機嗎？連聯合國人權理事會都要求台灣人使用台胞證，是誰導致的？憤怒之情溢於言表。藍營立委則認為，兩岸關係走下坡，是不爭事實。 ==國民黨立委 林德福== 以前是可以中華民國 現在又要你改名 這些都讓我們整個外交的空間 愈縮愈小 你到聯合國去 我認為他也是以這種模式 對於台灣在聯合國出現被矮化情勢，外交部表示駐外同仁第一時間已掌握情形並做出處置，駐日內瓦辦事處第一時間就向聯合國國達無法接受如此做法，聯合國已違背其憲章普世價值，我國不接受聯合國這種歧視性做法，會洽友邦協助，希望盡早更正。 記者 李曉儒 謝其文 台北報導