KMT chairman Lien Chan, who was banqueting with overseas Chinese groups in New York at the time, described the KMT as Taiwan's only truly "localized" (or pro-Taiwan) party, and said that he absolutely opposed anything that stirs up rancor over the unification-vs.-independence issue or that tries to separate the notions of ethnic solidarity and shared national identity.
國民黨主席連戰則遠在紐約出訪，於僑宴公開致詞時表示，國民黨才是道道地地的本土政黨，堅決反對任何激化統獨情結、分化族群團結與民族情感的作為。