UKRAINIAN VISIT OF TAIWANESE LEADER OUTRAGES BEIJING.

The Foreign Ministry in Beijing today summoned Ukrainian ambassador to protest against the visit to Ukraine of Taiwan’s vice president and prime minister Lien Chan. In retaliation Beijing postponed, and implied that it was canceling altogether, a visit to Ukraine by Politburo and State Council member Li Tieying, who is also chairman of the State Committee for Economic Restructuring. Taiwan official media claimed that Lien had met with Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma and agreed on setting up economic missions in the two countries. Ukraine’s presidential office and Foreign Ministry denied this and reaffirmed their adherence to the "one China" doctrine. Kiev insisted that Lien’s visit was strictly private and that he met with no state officials. (Western agencies, Xinhua, Interfax-Ukraine, August 21 and 22)

Tajik Opposition Advancing.