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July 17, 2006

Update: Pell receives high Taiwanese honor / Photo

Journal photo / Frieda Squires
Pell is greeted by David Tawei Lee, ambassador of Taiwan, today at the Pell Center -- named after the former senator -- at Salve Regina University in Newport.

NEWPORT -- Former U.S. Sen. Claiborne Pell received one of Taiwan’s highest honors this afternoon at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations & Public Policy.

Taiwanese Ambassador David Tawei Lee of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office will present Pell with Taiwan’s Order of Propitious Cloud with Grand Cordon on behalf of Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian, said P.H. Liotta, the director of the university’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy.

Liotta said Pell was being honored for his efforts to promote democracy in Taiwan and improve its relationship with the United States.

Pell, who lives in Newport, represented Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate from 1961 to 1997.

The Democrat was a top member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1979, when Congress agreed to form economic and cultural ties with Taiwan after recognizing the People's Republic of China.

Taiwan and China split in 1949 when Communist forces took over mainland China. Chinese authorities call Taiwan a renegade province.

-- With Associated Press reports

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