Participants give the thumbs-up at the GCTF forum on sustainable aviation system building Aug. 29 in Taipei City. (MOFA)
 

A workshop on promoting sustainable aviation was staged by Taiwan, the U.S., Japan and Australia under the Global Cooperation and Training Framework Aug. 29-30 in Taipei City, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Themed “Sustainable Aviation System: Safe, Green and Innovative,” the event was jointly organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Civil Aeronautics Administration under the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in collaboration with local representative offices of the three partner countries.

According to the MOFA, around 130 business representatives, experts and officials from 25 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, Latin America and Oceania took part in the first event on aviation staged in Taipei.

Those in attendance included MOTC Minister Wang Kwo-tsai and Wang Liang-yu, director-general of MOFA’s Department of North American Affairs, as well as members of the foreign diplomatic corps stationed in Taiwan.

The event focused on experience exchanges and discussions on ways to build safe, green and innovative aviation systems. It also featured visits to the CAA North Air Traffic Service Park and Evergreen Aviation Technologies Corp., both based in Taoyuan City, to bring participants up to speed on Taiwan’s related developments, the ministry added.

Since its launch in June 2015 by Taiwan and the U.S., with Japan and Australia joining later, GCTF has become a critical platform for the four sides to contribute to global problem-solving and share expertise with regional stakeholders, the MOFA said.

Under the initiative, a total of 61 workshops have been organized for over 7,000 participants from 126 countries and territories on topics spanning energy cooperation, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, media literacy, public health, and women’s empowerment, the ministry added. (SFC-E)