Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan said on Wednesday that the
United Nations' decision not to consider the so-called "Taiwan
participation in the United Nations" issue is a victory for
justice.
Any attempt to break up China or to promote Taiwan's participation
in the United Nations is doomed to fail, Tang said.
Tang, who is in New York to attend the 57th General Assembly
session, made the statement after the General Committee of the UN
General Assembly decided not to consider the Taiwan issue during
its current session.
The committee's decision foiled for the 10th consecutive time
Taiwan's attempt to join the world body.
The decision was announced by Jan Kavan, president of the General
Assembly, after a long debate on the proposal raised by Gambia and
a few other countries in an attempt to get the issue onto the
agenda of the assembly session, which opened at UN headquarters on
Tuesday.
Wang Yingfan, China's permanent representative to the UN,
criticized the Taiwan move as being aimed at creating "two Chinas,"
or "one China, one Taiwan." Wang noted that it is "in violation of
the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations as
well as General Assembly Resolution 2758."
Diplomats from more than 60 countries also stressed that the issue
of China's participation in the UN has already been resolved in
Resolution 2758 at the 26th General Assembly session in 1971 and
that debate on a settled issue is a sheer waste of time.
Resolution 2758 recognizes in unequivocal terms that "the
representatives of the Government of the People's Republic of China
are the only lawful representatives of China to the United Nations,
and that the People's Republic of China is one of the five
permanent members of the Security Council."
In
his statement to the General Committee of the UN General Assembly,
Wang said that 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 that Taiwan has been an inseparable
part of China's territory since antiquity.
He
stressed there is simply no such an issue as the so-called "Taiwan
representation in the United Nations."
In
Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said
yesterday the rejection of the Taiwan bid demonstrates once again
the firm determination of the vast majority of UN members.
"We seriously warn all separatist forces in Taiwan not to misjudge
the situation," Kong said. They must immediately stop all
separatist activities, he said.
(Xinhua News
Agency September 13, 2002)