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AIT chairman to brief Taiwan on Obama's China visit

Thursday, November 19, 2009
By Sinyao Shih and Y.F. Low, CNA


TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) will visit Taiwan next week to give a briefing on the details of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit earlier this week to China, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Lyushun Shen said Thursday.

Shen disclosed the information when asked by a lawmaker about related issues.

Talks between Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao Tuesday in Beijing were the focus of the U.S. president's three-day visit to China, the third leg of his four-nation maiden official tour of Asia.

According to a statement released Thursday by the AIT, the institute's chairman, Raymond Burghardt, will arrive in Taipei Sunday and stay until Wednesday.

It will be his seventh trip to Taiwan since his appointment as AIT chairman in 2006, according to the statement.

During his stay, Burghardt will meet with President Ma Ying-jeou, Legislative Yuan speaker Wang Jin-pyng, Premier Wu Den-yih and other major political and business figures, the AIT said.

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