The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it has thanked eight formal diplomatic
allies for supporting Taiwan's bid to participate in Interpol during the
agency's annual General Assembly in Morocco late last month.

According to the ministry, senior officials from the Marshall Islands,
Belize, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Guatemala, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines, Paraguay, and Eswatini all spoke up on Taiwan's behalf.

The foreign ministry says it delayed publicly thanking the allies until now
because the assembly was held in a closed-door format, and it needed time to
collect information on their respective addresses.

The ministry has now posted a video clip of representatives of six allies of
the allied nations that spoke up for Taiwan's inclusion during the
just-concluded assembly on its website.

Taiwan was a member of Interpol from 1964 until 1984 when the organization
terminated its membership in favor of China.