Guam stopover won't include meet with Obama

Ma is scheduled to stop over in Guam on March 21 en route to a visit to Taiwan's allies in the South Pacific.

Media reported noted that Obama will also be in Guam on the same day, sparking speculation that the two leaders might meet.

“No, no,” Ma said briefly in a public event in response to the speculation. He said that he will be in Guam at a different time of that day from Obama.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Chen Ming-cheng said the president has made four overseas trips, during which he stopped over on U.S. soil eight times on a basis of mutual trust.

Ma is making a “pure stop-over” in Guam en-route to the South Pacific, said Chen, asking the public not to make any speculation.

The president is expected to depart on March 21 for a trip that will bring him to the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Nauru, the Solomon Islands and Palau. He will return to Taiwan on March 27, according to the ministry.

It will be Ma's first visit to the South Pacific allies since becoming president.

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