The Taipei Zoo was turned into a 'mini United Nations' Sunday as many new immigrants in Taiwan donned their own countries' attire during a walk to mark International Immigrants Day, which falls on Dec. 18. Interior Minister Jiang Yi-huah, dressed in South Korean garb, greeted participants in Korean. 'There are 960,000 new immigrants in Taiwan, and they have injected fresh blood into this land and enriched Taiwan's culture, ' Jiang said. National Immigration Agency (NIA) Director-General Hsieh Li-kung, who wore traditional clothing from Southeast Asia during the event, laid out his agency's future goals. 'Human rights, jobs, language training, and helping people get acclimated to life in Taiwan will be the goals the NIA will strive for,' Hsieh said. The NIA official noted that his agency is already working with the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission and the Ministry of Transportation and Communications to deal with the top complaint among new immigrants -- the use of different romanization systems in public facilities and on roads. Many foreign nationals who took part in Sunday's walk have favorable impressions of Taiwan. Nathan Kaiser from Switzerland, who has lived in Taiwan for a decade and was with his Taiwanese wife and their two-and-a-half-year-old son, said he loves the living environment here and intends to stay for a long time. Salieh from Malaysia, who works in Taiwan and has her two children with her, said she doesn't worry about 'cultural barriers' because 'everybody here is very friendly.' Malaysian Kamalrudin Bin Ali, in Taiwan with his children to visit his wife, who works here, said he feels Taiwan's people are friendly to Islamic culture. The Ministry of the Interior, which sponsored the activity, estimated that more than 2,000 people showed up for Sunday's walk. Most were Taiwanese, but there were also many foreign housemaids and foreign spouses of Taiwanese citizens. 