Besides attending the inauguration of President Fernandez of the Dominican Republic, he also took a top-secret trip to Ukraine, making him the highest ROC official to visit Eastern Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain.
除了參加多明尼加總統費南德斯就職儀式，連戰還在極端保密的情況下，悄赴烏克蘭，成為共產政權在東歐解體之後，我國到訪的最高行政官員。