Taiwan will exchange representative offices with Lithuania which is an autonomous island said on Tuesday In order to develop relations between countries that are under constant pressure from China.

various offices will try to promote economic and trade relations Along with cooperation in other fields The island's foreign ministry said pgslot

The office will use the name Taiwan rather than "Chinese Taipei", which is used in other countries. in order not to disturb Beijing which claimed the island was its territory without diplomatic recognition.

“The governments of Taiwan and Lithuania have agreed after intense negotiations that Taiwan will soon set up a representative office in the Lithuanian capital at Vilnius,” said Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu.

“The name of the representative office will be 'Taiwanese representative office in Lithuania', the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is making serious preparations," Wu said.

Taiwan's first overseas representative office with the name Taiwan was established in Somaliland in 2020. While pressure from China has reduced the island's official diplomatic alliance to 15, it maintains informal ties. with major countries through the use of the de facto embassy