Taiwan’s 12 diplomatic allies in Latin America and the Caribbean will all send top officials to attend Tsai Ing-wen’s inauguration as president. The most senior among them will be the president of Paraguay, Horacio Cartes, and the prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Timothy Harris.
Other senior officials and representatives include the vice president of Nicaragua; the foreign ministers of the Dominican Republic and El Salvador and Saint Lucia’s speaker of the house. Belize and Saint Vincent are sending deputy prime ministers while Honduras is sending its chief justice. Guatemala, Panama and Haiti will be represented by their first ladies.
The foreign ministry on Monday also confirmed the attendance of the heads of state of Taiwan’s six Pacific allies: Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Tuvalu, the Solomon Islands and the Marshall Islands. Nearly 700 dignitaries from 59 countries, including all 22 countries that maintain diplomatic ties with Taiwan, will attend the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Tsai Ing-wen. Tsai will be sworn in on May 20 as the nation’s first female president.