On the picture Honourable Lu Hsiu-lien.
Tuesday, 18 October 2016, Brussels-Luxembourg: The first female Vice-President of the Republic of China (Taiwan), The Honourable Lu Hsiu-lien, Founding President of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women (Taiwan, 2008), was hosted at the European Parliament by MEPs of all the political persuasions during a warm dinner, which was preceded by an allocution of the former Vice-President on her geo-political insights about the Far East.
Ms Lu Hsiu-lien (呂秀蓮) served as ROC’s Vice-President between 20 May 2000 and 20 May 2008; being the first and only woman hitherto to have held the office. She is also the very first elected deputy chief of state to take up a Westernised forename, namely “Annette”.
The President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE Party), MEP Hans van Baalen (The Netherlands) also addressed the audience after the speech of Ms Lu to highlight the fact that the ROC is still often excluded from international organisations and meetings, and warned of the perils in the world order of denying recognition to the ROC and its leadership.
Photography by Director Cheng Yuan-ching, Press Division – Taipei Representative Office in the European Union and Belgium. Baron Henri Estramant and Vice-President Lu Hsiu-lien at the European Parliament headquarters at Brussels.
