| Monday, November 12, 2001, updated at 09:43(GMT+8) |
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China said Sunday at the United Nations that to resolve the Taiwan issue once and for all and complete the reunification of the motherland is "the unswerving conviction of all the Chinese." Chinese foreign minister Tang Jiaxuan reiterated that the principle for the settlement of the Taiwan issue is "peaceful reunification and one country, two systems."
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China said Sunday at the United Nations that to resolve the Taiwan issue once and for all and complete the reunification of the motherland is "the unswerving conviction of all the Chinese."
The statement was contained in the speech delivered by Tang Jiaxuan, the Chinese foreign minister, at the general debate of the 56th General Assembly session, which began here Saturday.
"There is but one China in the world, and the Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Straits have the same blood in their veins," he said.
He reiterated that the principle for the settlement of the Taiwan issue is "peaceful reunification and one country, two systems."
"There is every reason for the two sides to conduct consultation on an equal footing and discuss reunification together as early as possible under the one China principle," he said, adding that anything can be discussed in such talks.
"Direct links of mail, trade, air and shipping services between the two sides should not be artificially impeded any longer," he said. "We have the greatest sincerity in working for a peaceful reunification as this serves the interests of the Chinese people on both sides of the Straits."
"We are unequivocal in our determined opposition to all attempts aimed at splitting China, be they perpetrated on the Taiwan Island or elsewhere," he said.
"China's sovereignty and territorial integrity are indivisible and the fundamental interests of the entire Chinese people brook no jeopardy," he noted.
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