Foreign Minister Lien Chan expressed his desire to use "realistic, flexible, and forward-looking methods" to break through the current reliance on substantive foreign relations and to "establish formal diplomatic relations with ever country in the world" as well as to improve substantive relations.
外交部長連戰表示：「我們要以實際、靈活及前瞻的作法，突破目前以實質外交為主的對外關係。」而且，「要以經濟為後盾，與世界各國建立邦交，並提昇實質關係。」