Tsai Ing-wen’s authorities announced at this time that they would apply to participate in the Interpol annual meeting. They were questioned as having “special considerations and believe that the chance of success is higher.”
Taiwanese media disclosed on the 16th that following the failure in 2016, the Taiwan authorities once again applied to attend the 87th Annual Conference of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) to be held in Dubai in mid-November as an observer. Taiwan's "Ministry of Foreign Affairs" also confirmed on the 16th that Cai Cangbai, director of the Criminal Police Department of the "Ministry of the Interior Police Department", has written to the Secretary-General of Interpol to apply to attend as an observer, "hoping to meaningfully participate in the organization's meetings, mechanisms and activities." , including using the Global Police Communications System" and participating in training activities. The letter was delivered to the Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France on September 17.
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"China Times" said on the 16th that Mainland China Vice Minister of Public Security Meng Hongwei, who is also the chairman of Interpol, was recently dismissed from his position as chairman due to investigation for his involvement in the case. The current acting chairman is Korean, so Tsai Ing-wen At this time, the authorities announced their application to participate in the annual meeting, but they were questioned as having "special considerations and believed that the chance of success was higher." The "Crime Bureau" stated that Taiwan had already evaluated its re-application and had nothing to do with the chairman's change. Taiwanese media revealed that the "Police Agency" recently held the "2018 International Police Cooperation Forum - Seminar on Combating Cross-Border Telecommunications Fraud". Participants in Taiwan had a good interaction with Taiwan's top police officials. In addition, Taiwan and South Korea are jointly combating fraud and There is quite good cooperation in drug crimes, so "Police Commissioner" Chen Jiaqin instructed to actively evaluate the feasibility of participating in this year's annual meeting.
Interpol was founded in 1923. It is the world's second largest intergovernmental international organization after the United Nations . It is the world's largest police cooperation platform for combating and preventing crime. It is headquartered in Lyon and currently has 192 members. The Taiwan authorities withdrew after the mainland applied for membership in 1984. Currently, the organization has no direct contact with Taiwan and relies on Japan to convey information.
Since 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate have passed bills to support Taiwan's participation in Interpol as an observer;
In 2016, the U.S. Senate passed Bill 2426 by "unanimous consent", requiring the Secretary of State to propose a development strategy to assist Taiwan in obtaining observer status. identity. But in 2016, Taiwan re-submitted the proposal and was rejected.
The 2017 conference was held in Beijing. Due to the sharp freeze in cross-strait relations, Taiwan did not apply after evaluation.
Interpol organized its annual meeting in Beijing in 2017 (Photo source: Interpol website)
html On the 216th, Taiwan’s “Ministry of Foreign Affairs” official Chen Longjin revealed that after ’s letter this year was issued, the local representative office had been asked to contact “key persons” "Supports assistance, but "has not yet received a response from them (Interpol)."In response to Taiwan’s plan to attend Interpol activities as an observer, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Mainland China once responded that due to “well-known reasons”, the cross-strait institutionalized consultation and exchange mechanisms have been suspended and related issues are difficult to deal with.
"China Times" also mentioned on the 16th that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait had signed an agreement to jointly combat crime and mutual judicial assistance, and successfully repatriated many criminal and economic prisoners who had fled to the mainland. When fraud and crimes were rampant on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, they also used a joint crackdown mechanism. Information exchange and cooperation successfully disrupted the fraud gang. However, in recent years, cross-strait political relations have fallen into a freeze, and the previous cooperation model has also stalled. The island is not optimistic about this idea of the Taiwan authorities. Some netizens left a message sarcastically calling it "a waste of effort", while others bluntly said: "Is Taiwan joining to protect drug criminals, fraudsters and gangs?"
