On January 13 President Chen Shui-bian announced at the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA) that he had formally approved a MOFA document stipulating that "passports be annotated with the word Taiwan," and that this was his gift to FAPA on the occasion of its 20th anniversary celebration.
元月十三日，陳水扁總統在海外社團台灣人公共事務協會（FAPA）二十週年慶祝大會上宣布，他已經正式批示外交部「護照加註 TAIWAN 英文字」的公文，這是他送給 FAPA 週年慶的禮物。