Taiwan’s Deputy Representative to the United States Huang Wei feng made the remarks to reporters after attending a seminar at George Washington University, in response to the U.S. State Department’s opposition to Chen’s referendum proposal.

U.S. State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack said Tuesday that such a referendum would raise tension between Taiwan and China.

Huang explained at the seminar that Taiwan government decided to strive for entry to the U.N. and the World Health Organization under the name of “Taiwan” this year after having suffered many setbacks in its bids to join various world bodies in the past decade.

Responding to questions about the necessity of holding a referendum — since poll results already show public support for Taiwan’s U.N. bid — Huang said that a referendum can “truly show the people’s will” because it is active involvement compared with passively answering poll questions via telephone.

Huang said it is understandable that the U.S. does not agree to Taiwan’s referendum proposal but said the MOFA will keep communicating with the U.S. to let it know the referendum proposal is “the will of the people of Taiwan.”

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