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 Slovakia |  Taiwan |
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| Slovak Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei | Taipei Representative Office in Slovakia |
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| Representative Martin Podstavek | Representative Lee Nan-yang |
Taiwan-Slovakia relations refers to bilateral ties between Taiwan (formally known as the Republic of China) and Slovakia (formally known as the Slovak Republic).
Slovakian interests in Taiwan are represented by the Slovak Economic and Cultural Office Taipei. [1]
Slovakia does not extend diplomatic recognition to Taiwan although it is exploring ways to do so. [2]
The Slovak Economic and Cultural Office Taipei was opened in 2001. [3]
Martin Podstavek assumed the role of Slovakian representative in Taiwan in 2017. In 2022, Podstavek was awarded the Taiwanese Grand Medal of Diplomacy. [1]
In 2021, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Slovakia passed a resolution to support the attendance of Taiwan at the World Health Assembly. [4]
During the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, Taiwan donated masks to Slovakia. Later in the pandemic, Slovakia reciprocated with COVID vaccines. [5]
Foreign relations of the Republic of China (ROC), more commonly known as Taiwan, are accomplished by efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, a cabinet-level ministry of the Government of the Republic of China. As of January 2024, the ROC has formal diplomatic relations with 11 of the 193 United Nations member states and with the Holy See, which governs the Vatican City State. In addition to these relations, the ROC also maintains unofficial relations with 59 UN member states, one self-declared state (Somaliland), three territories (Guam, Hong Kong, and Macau), and the European Union via its representative offices and consulates. In 2021, the Government of the Republic of China had the 33rd largest diplomatic network in the world with 110 offices.
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO), also known as Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO), Taipei Representative Office (TRO) or Taipei Mission, is an alternative diplomatic institution serving as a de facto embassy or a consulate of the Republic of China to exercise the foreign affairs and consular services in specific countries which have established formal diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. The PRC denies the legitimacy of the ROC as a sovereign state and claims the ROC-controlled territories as an integral part of its territory. An exclusive mandate, namely One-China policy, requires that any country wishing to establish a diplomatic relationship with the PRC must first sever any formal relationship with the ROC. According to The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, "non-recognition of the Taiwanese government is a prerequisite for conducting formal diplomatic relations with the PRC—in effect forcing other governments to choose between Beijing and Taipei." As a result, these countries only allow the ROC to establish representative offices instead of a fully-fledged embassy or consulate for the purpose of conducting practical bilateral relations without granting full diplomatic recognition.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a cabinet-level ministry of Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), and is responsible for the ROC's diplomacy and foreign relations. It is headquartered in the capital Taipei. The incumbent minister is Lin Chia-lung, who took office in 2024 and is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party.
After the United States established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1979 and recognized Beijing as the only legal government of China, Taiwan–United States relations became unofficial and informal following terms of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA), which allows the United States to have relations with the Taiwanese people and their government, whose name is not specified. U.S.–Taiwan relations were further informally grounded in the Six Assurances in response to the third communiqué on the establishment of US–PRC relations. The Taiwan Travel Act, passed by the U.S. Congress on March 16, 2018, allows high-level U.S. officials to visit Taiwan and vice versa. Both sides have since signed a consular agreement formalizing their existent consular relations on September 13, 2019. The US government removed self-imposed restrictions on executive branch contacts with Taiwan on January 9, 2021.
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Canada and Taiwan have maintained unofficial bilateral relations since 1970. First contacts between Canada and Taiwan began in 1871 with the arrival of George Leslie Mackay.
Taiwan–United Kingdom relations refers to bilateral relations between Taiwan and the United Kingdom. Due to the One China policy, the United Kingdom does not diplomatically recognise the Government of the Republic of China and all diplomatic relations between the two countries take place on an unofficial basis. Taiwan maintains the Taipei Representative Office in the U.K. in London with a branch office in Edinburgh, while the United Kingdom maintains the British Office Taipei in Taipei.
The bilateral relations between Italy and the Republic of China (Taiwan) are a subject of China–Italy relations. The two countries had official diplomatic relations from 1913 to 1941 and from 1944 to 1970, but these were interrupted by World War II. Since Italy recognized the People's Republic of China on 6 November 1970, Italy under the "One China policy" maintains relations with Taiwan on an unofficial basis.
The Czech Republic and Taiwan maintain strong unofficial relations.
Taiwan–European Union relations refers to the international relations between Taiwan, and the European Union (EU).
Events from the year 2021 in Taiwan, Republic of China.
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