President Mandela has repeatedly stressed his desire to maintain all substantive links with Taiwan; we trust in his sincerity and place great hopes in the mission of foreign minister John Chang to South Africa.
曼德拉總統一再強調，希望能維持所有的實質關係，我們相信他的誠意，也對外交部長章孝嚴的南非行抱著極大的期望，相信台灣有能力在風雨中更為茁壯。