A Chinese mainland official said here Wednesday that the mainland hopes its chief negotiator's upcoming visit to Taiwan will be safe and smooth.
The mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) chairman Chen Yunlin will head a delegation to Taiwan from Nov. 3 to 7.
Leaders of the ARATS and Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) will meet to discuss cross-Strait shipping, air transport, postal services and food safety.
"Arrangements for the meeting should follow routines so that they are acceptable and convenient to both sides," State Council Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman Yang Yi said.
The two organizations had already agreed on the locations and titles for meetings, he said.
It will be the second meeting between the ARATS and the SEF in the last 10 years. The first, attended by SEF chairman Chiang Pin-kung, was held in Beijing in June.
Chen's trip to Taiwan was preceded by an incident in which ARATS deputy chief Zhang Mingqing was jostled by a crowd in Taiwan.
Zhang, who was visiting the invitation of the Taiwan National University of the Arts as dean of journalism at Xiamen University, was shoved to the ground by a mob allegedly incited by a local lawmaker from Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party.
The ARATS has condemned the violence and asked the Taiwan authority to prevent such incidents in future.
Yang said security measures for Chen's stay should "refer to" the measures for Chiang when he was visiting mainland, Yang said, without giving details.
Source: Xinhua
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