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(August 13,
2007/ Manila) Dr. Lai I-Chung, the newly appointed Director of
the Department of International Affairs of the Democratic
Progressive Party of Taiwan visited the CALD Secretariat last
Friday.
Dr.
Lai-I-Chung conferred with Mr. John Joseph Coronel, CALD
Executive Director and CALD Program Officers Paolo Zamora and
Carlo Religioso. Dr. Lai was accompanied by Mr. James Chi-ping
Chang, Director of the Political Affairs Division of the Taipei
Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Manila.
Messrs. Lai
and Coronel discussed the continuing cooperation between DPP and
CALD. As a founding member of CALD and a two-term chair party
(Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian is the immediate past CALD
Chairman), the DPP Director and the members of the CALD
Secretariat agreed to strengthen further communication between
the two offices.
Dr. Lai also
had a meeting with Mr. Siegfried Herzog, Manila Resident
Representative of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. |