[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 142 (Tuesday, October 4, 1994)]
[Senate]
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[Congressional Record: October 4, 1994]
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                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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   REGARDING THE DEPARTURE OF REPRESENTATIVE DING AND THE ARRIVAL OF 
                           REPRESENTATIVE LU

 Mr. CHAFEE. Mr. President, this week as Chinese people around 
the world celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the Chinese 
republic under Dr. Sun Yat-sen, it is also an appropriate moment to 
note the departure of Ambassador Ding Mou-shis, the Representative of 
Taiwan in Washington. Ambassador Ding Mou-shis has served with 
distinction during an important period in United States-Taiwan 
relations. In the course of his tenure, Taiwan has completed some of 
the most fundamental political changes achieved by any society in East 
Asia, including the democratization of its political processes, 
culminating in changes in law requiring the popular election of every 
major officeholder in the country. The diversity and vigor of the print 
media also attests to the health of the democratic process which is now 
established there.
  Mr. Ding is succeeded by Mr. Benjamin C. Lu who is known to several 
members of this body from his days as the head of the economic section 
in the representative office here in Washington. Mr. Lu comes to the 
Capital from his previous post as the representative of Taiwan to the 
European Community, an assignment with many of the difficulties and 
complexities that have prepared him for the responsibilities he now 
takes up in the United States. Over the last two decades, Mr. Lu has 
served with distinction in a succession of posts: His first assignment 
in the United States was as auditor at the Foreign Exchange and Trade 
Commission of the United Nations from 1964 to 1966; he became a 
consultant to the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, also 
at the United Nations, until 1969; thereafter he was appointed deputy 
director at the board of foreign trade of the Ministry of Economic 
Affairs in Taipei in which post he served until 1977, becoming deputy 
director general of the board until 1982; that year he was selected to 
be the director of the economic division at the Coordination Council 
for North American Affairs here in Washington where he served for 6 
years; in 1988 he assumed the office of Director of Taiwan's office in 
London and Belgium, where he was responsible for economic relations; in 
1991 he became the representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural 
Office in Belgium until his assignment to Washington this fall.
  We welcome Representative Lu with the hope that relations between the 
United States and Taiwan will continue to strengthen.

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