Nearly 30 years after the ROC's withdrawal from the United Nations, a group formally registered as a non-governmental organization (NGO) with the United Nations, the Association of World Citizens, held its 2001 World Citizens Assembly in Taipei.
在中華民國退出聯合國將近三十年之後，第一個掛著聯合國名號的「聯合國／NGO 世界公民大會」在台北舉行，來自世界五十餘國的代表與會。