Premier Reiterates Principle for Cross-Straits Talks

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, March 05, 2002

Premier Reiterates Principle for Cross-Straits Talks

The Chinese mainland insists on resuming the dialogue and negotiation between the Taiwan Straits on the basis of the one China principle, said Premier Zhu Rongji Tuesday.

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The Chinese mainland insists on resuming the dialogue and negotiation between the Taiwan Straits on the basis of the one China principle, said Premier Zhu Rongji Tuesday.

The mainland is working to further expand the cross-straits economic and cultural exchanges and develop cross-straits relations so as to establish the "three direct links" as soon as possible, he said in a report on government work he delivered at the opening of the annual session of the Ninth National People's Congress.

In the new year, the premier said, the mainland will adhere to the basic principles of "peaceful reunification" and "one country, two systems" and, under the eight-point proposal for the solution to the Taiwan question put forward by President Jiang Zemin, the mainland will work hard to develop cross-straits relations in the direction of peaceful reunification.

"We reaffirm that there is only one China in the world and the Chinese mainland and Taiwan both belong to one China. China's sovereignty and territorial integrity tolerate no division," he said.

The one China principle is the basis and premise for developing cross-straits relations and promoting peaceful reunification of the motherland, he stressed.

The mainland will, as always, continue to strengthen exchanges and dialogues with all political parties and people from all walks of life in Taiwan who support the one China principle and the development of cross-straits relations.

"We support the patriotic actions against 'Taiwan independence'attempts and for the country's reunification by overseas Chinese and people of Chinese origin across the world," the premier said.

"We firmly believe that the great cause of the complete reunification of the motherland is bound to be realized in an early date," he said.

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