INT’L MAYORS GROUP CORRECTS WRONG DESIGNATION OF TAIWAN CITIES

The wrongful classification of six Taiwanese cities on the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) website as being in China has been corrected, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said.

The six Taiwanese cities -- Taipei, New Taipei, Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung -- were listed under the country classification of "China" on the GCoM website, even though Taiwan is not part of the People's Republic of China, Chen Yun-yu and Joseph Yeh wrote for Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA).

Following Taiwan's protest, the GCoM changed the cities' listing Sunday night to "Chinese Taipei," the name originally used when they joined the organization, Wu told reporters Monday.

The correction was made after the six cities issued a joint letter Sunday to the GCoM, requesting that it "immediately fix the website and change the registered names of our cities back to the original registered nationality." It said that if the alliance did not respond positively, the six cities would withdraw from the group to "defend our rights and interests." The cities said Taiwan is not part of China and objected to what they called "dwarfing behavior" and their inclusion as a "city of China." In response to the protest, the GCoM said the mislabeling was a simple "technical error" that has promptly been corrected, according to a foreign ministry press statement.

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