Taipei, Aug. 23 (CNA) President Chen Shui-bian is scheduled to address the opening of the 2002 Asia-Pacific Democratic Cooperation Forum slated for Aug. 25-28 at the Grand Hotel, Taipei.
The Asia-Pacific Democratic Cooperation Forum, established as a mechanism for Asia-Pacific democratic cooperation and aimed at helping promote the realization of the universal values of democracy and human rights, will be co-chaired by Senior Presidential Adviser Peng Ming-min and Clement Chang, chairman of the World League for Freedom and Democracy.
The four-day forum is expected to be participated in by opinion leaders and top-notch strategists from the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and the host Republic of China.
Members of the U.S. delegation will include James Steinberg, vice president of the prestigious Brookings Institute who was deputy national security adviser to former President Bill Clinton, and Franklin Kramer, an attorney at Shea & Gardner Attorneys at Law who was formerly assistant defense secretary of the United States.