Foreign Affairs Minister Timothy C.T. Yang said Wednesday that the ministry will propose that Taiwan's desire to join international organizations be included in future cross-Taiwan Strait talks. He said the ministry will propose the matter to the Mainland Affairs Council, the nation's top China policy charter, so that it can in due time list the issue for communication with China. Yang said that 'Taiwan's bid to join international organizations requires support from other countries, as well as the goodwill of China, ' adding that 'presently, Taiwan has seen China display goodwill on international affairs.' He made the remarks at a legislative hearing in which legislators expressed concern about Taiwan being shut out of international organizations due to Chinese obstruction and suggested that the issue be included in cross-strait talks scheduled for next week. The legislators are also concerned that Taiwan was represented by a non- governmental organization -- The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) -- at a recent climate conference in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, and that the ITRI was listed under the name of China. Legislator Liu Shen-liang of the ruling Kuomintang said Taiwan's lodging of protests at the meeting were to no avail and suggested that the MOFA use the warmer cross-strait relations under the administration of President Ma Ying-jeou to include the issue in the upcoming meeting between the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and its Chinese counterpart, the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS). 'If this is not done, Taiwan will have to protest every time, ' Liang said. Legislator Tsai Huang-liang of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party echoed his words, saying that the issue should be included on the meeting agenda to help Taiwan's bids to join United Nations-affiliated agencies. During the SEF-ARATS talks scheduled to take place next week in the central city of Taichung, four agreements are expected to be signed on fishing crew cooperation, agricultural quarantine inspection, industrial product standards, inspection and certification, and the avoidance of double taxation. 