China Reiterates Principle for Cross-Straits DialogueThe Chinese mainland would like to empower a concerned organization to contact or hold dialogues with organizations or persons entrusted by the Taiwan side so long as the Taiwan authorities clearly state that they will not advocate the "two states theory" and commit themselves to adhering to the "one China" principle.This was contained in a statement on the current cross-Straits relations issued Saturday by the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the Taiwan Affairs Office under the State Council. The statement said, "At present, we would like to authorize the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) to contact or hold dialogues with organizations or persons entrusted by the Taiwan authorities, provided that the Taiwan authorities make a clear-cut commitment that they will not advocate the 'two states theory' and that they will adhere to the consensus reached between the ARATS and Taiwan's Strait Exchange Foundation in 1992 that the two sides will express in their own way orally that 'both sides across the Straits stick to the "one China" principle'." The statement reiterated that high-level visits between the two sides will be realized on the basis of the "one China" principle, and that on this principle, all issues can be discussed. |
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