Former prime minister of Demark and ex-NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will visit Taiwan next week to meet with President Tsai Ing-wen (???), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday.
During his scheduled stay from Jan. 3 to 5, Rasmussen, founder of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation (AoD), will also meet with Vice President Lai Ching-te (???), Foreign Minister Joseph Wu (???) as well as lawmakers and think tank scholars, MOFA said in a press release.
MOFA said Rasmussen had been calling on democratic countries to enhance cooperation with Taiwan to build democratic reliance amid the expansion of authoritarianism, adding his upcoming visit was a clear demonstration of his strong support toward Taiwan.
The Danish politician was the 24th Prime Minister of Denmark from November 2001 to April 2009 and the 12th Secretary General of NATO from August 2009 to October 2014.
In 2017, Rasmussen founded the AoD, a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of democracy and free markets across the globe.
In this role, he hosts the annual Copenhagen Democracy Summit, which was first held in 2018.
Wu personally visited Denmark for the annual summit to give an address in 2019 while President Tsai has also been invited to give a virtual speech at the summit annually since 2020, according to MOFA.
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel