China Reiterates One China PrincipleChinese Permanent Representative Wang Yingfan Friday said the attempt by a small number of countries to raise the issue of "Taiwan's participation in the United Nations" in this year's U.N. General Assembly session constitutes a violation of the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter and a relevant General Assembly resolution.In his statement at the General Committee of the 56th Session of the General Assembly, Wang said it is an indisputable objective reality and legal fact widely recognized by the international community that there is only one China in the world and Taiwan has been an inseparable part of China's territory since antiquity. To date, more than 160 countries in the world have diplomatic relations with China, recognizing that Taiwan is an inseparable part of China's territory and the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China, he said. Wang said that the historic Resolution 2758, adopted by the 26th session of the U.N. General Assembly in 1971, has solved once and for all in political, legal and procedural terms, the issue of China's representation at the Unite Nations. As of the day when the legitimate rights of the People's Republic of China were restored at the U.N., "the Government of the People's Republic of China has rightfully represented all Chinese, including our compatriots in Taiwan, in the United Nations and all organizations related to it," he said, adding that this has fully safeguarded the principle of universality of the United Nations. Thus, he said, there is simply no such issue as the so-called " Taiwan's representation in the United Nations." Wang Yingfan also said that as part of China, Taiwan is already covered in China's representation at the U.N. and is thus not eligible to participate on its own, in any other name or under any pretext in the work or activities of the U.N. or its specialized agencies. He said that the General Committees of the successive sessions of the General Assembly since 1993 have all flatly refused the request to include the issue of the so-called "Taiwan's participation in the United Nations" in the agenda of the General Assembly and this year's proposal by a small number of countries is doomed to fail as before. |
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