Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) presides over a hearing about USAID on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 13, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
A bipartisan group of lawmakers from the House Foreign Affairs Committee has urged the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to formally invite Taiwan to participate in its upcoming triennial assembly, in a letter calling the move “a matter of U.S. national interest.”
The Sept. 17 letter, led by Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), who is the chairman of the committee, and Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), its ranking member, told ICAO President Salvatore Sciacchitano that the U.N. agency “cannot fulfill its mandate while excluding Taiwan’s experience, perspective, and participation.”
