Taipei- Taiwan's top negotiator with China suggested Monday that Taiwan and China should sign an economic cooperation pact and a peace pact to promote peace in the Taiwan Strait.

Chiang Ping-kun, chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), made the proposal while reporting Taiwan-China ties at the monthly meeting of the Presidential Office.

Taiwan-China ties have moved from the 1949-1987 period of confrontation to the 1988-2008 period of economic exchanges, the report said.

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Taipei  - The chairman of Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party or Kuomintang (KMT) plans to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics on August 8, his spokesman said.