At the end of September Palau's foreign minister wrote a letter to Fredrick Chien, the ROC's minister of foreign affairs, stating that the claims made in the ad were "false," and that the Palau government denied them and refused all responsibility for them.
帛琉外交部長烏貝勞在九個月底致函外交部長錢復，表示這份廣告內容「虛偽不實」，帛琉政府必須全盤否認，並拒絕承擔任何責任。