Overseas Chinese world conference criticize 'referendum'

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Overseas Chinese world conference criticize 'referendum'

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Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian's plan of holding the so-called "referendum" had deteriorated the situation in China's Taiwan and pushed local peoples' lives on a risky brink, a delegate of the overseas Chinese world conference said Tuesday.

Chen pushed forward the "referendum" despite the opposition of the local people and that of members of the international community including the United States, the European Union and Japan, said Amorn Apithanakoon, chief of the Thai Chinese AncestorAssociation, at the first-day meeting of the conference, which aimed to coordinate global Chinese's efforts to promote peaceful reunification of China.

"Chen's real motives for the so-called referendum are clear," said Amorn.

"With nothing to prove his four-year term's achievement and curb the mafia's influence infiltrating into Taiwan's politics, hetried to play a pathetic image by wreaking chaos for the current situation so as to win people's sympathy and gain votes."

Doing so, he not only went against the mainstream wishes for peace, stability and economic development in Taiwan, but also aggravate the political turbulence there, which would finally threaten Taiwan people's welfare, said Amorn.

The Chinese people across the Taiwan Straits have witnessed improved cultural and economic exchange and annual trade volume across the straits has reached 50 billion US dollars.

"There is only one China in the world and Taiwan is an inalienable part of China," Amorn said.

"We overseas Chinese strongly call for peace rather than war, for stability rather than turbulence, for reunification rather than separation," he said at the end of his speech.

The two-day oversees Chinese world conference for promoting peaceful reunification of China opened in Bangkok on Tuesday morning.

Over 1,000 delegates from some 20 countries and regions around the world gathered at the conference.

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