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Saint Lucia Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...

nese

ambassador An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sov ...

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is the official representative of the Government in

Castries Castries is the capital and largest city of Saint Lucia, an island country in the Caribbean. The urban area has a population of approximately 20,000, while the eponymous district has a population of 70,000, as at May 2013. The city stretches o ...

to the Government of

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

. St. Lucia and Taiwan maintained diplomatic relations from 1984, during the first premiership of

John Compton Sir John George Melvin Compton, (29 April 1925 – 7 September 2007) was a Saint Lucian politician who became the first Prime Minister upon independence in February 1979. Having led Saint Lucia under British rule from 1964 to 1979, Compton ser ...

. Compton's successor

Kenny Anthony Kenny Davis Anthony (born 8 January 1951Government page on Anthony
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led his government to recognize China in August 1997. Though relations between St. Lucia and Taiwan were reestablished in April 2007, the first ambassador of St. Lucia to Taiwan, Hubert Emmanuel, was not appointed until 2015.

List of representatives

'' Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Taiwan)'

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References

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