Taiwanese Prime Minister greeted at P.G.I.A.

The Philip S.W. Goldson International Airport was packed this morning with Taiwanese and Belizeans anxiously awaiting the arrival of Prime Minister Vincent C. Siew. His delegation of over eighty people includes high ranking government officials, business leaders and members of the Taiwanese press. The visit follows Prime Minister Said Musa’s visit to Tapei in October and marks the tenth anniversary of Belize-Taiwan relations. Prime Minister Siew and his wife were warmly greeted by Prime Minister Musa and the first lady Joan Musa. Although the guests were surrounded on all sides by both the Belizean and Taiwanese media they managed to make the necessary introductions of Cabinet officials and the two Prime Ministers stood shoulder to shoulder for the playing of each country’s national anthem. The guests were then escorted off the tarmac and surrounded once again inside the terminal. But this time they were in the midst of Taiwanese living in Belize who greeted their Prime Minister with flags, flowers and shouts of welcome. Prime Minister Siew made his way slowly, as if determined to touch everyone who had waited so patiently to see him in person.