President Chen said that he was representing Taiwan's 23 million people to pay his and their deepest condolences to the late Pope. On St. Peter's Square, people of all nations, races, and religions paid their last respects to a great pontiff.
陳總統表示，他代表台灣 2300 萬人民，以最莊重、最虔誠與最不捨的心情，來參加這場追思彌撒，在聖伯多祿廣場，大家看到不分國別、不分種族、不分宗教的人們齊聚一堂，向最偉大的教宗致意。