Are we hoaxed?

Regarding the post about United Nations will abandon Traditional Chinese and change to Simplified Chinese in 2008 I uploaded to previous blog (edited and re-posted on this blog on 14th Jan), I have got a reply from a Taiwanese net pal: the spokesperson of Foreign Affairs clarified the fact on 11th April, 2006 that this is not true.

The Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has checked with the UN after the news in March 2006, and was told that as to respect the sovereign state of China, the UN started to use Simplified Chinese since 1971 and there is no prohibition against using Traditional Chinese. Therefore, that news was only a rumor.

Even if we were told the truth, just one day before I wrote that topic I heard presenters were discussing this case on radio, as well as radio news about 45,000 people signed to against the UN's abolishing Traditional Chinese. Would there be any news to clarify the truth but I did not notice?

Then are we all hoaxed?

Sources: http://www.ettoday.com/2006/04/11/91-1927685.htm and http://zh.wikinews.org/wiki/%E8%81%AF%E5%90%88%E5%9C%8B%E6%97%A9%E5%B7%B2%E5%81%9C%E7%94%A8%E7%B9%81%E9%AB%94%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87