Visiting President Jiang Zemin Wednesday reiterated that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China, expressing his belief that China will finally achieve its national reunification.
Jiang made the remarks when visiting the Cecelienhof Palace, the scene of high-level negotiations between the Soviet Union, the United States and Great Britain between July 17 and August 2, 1945.
Jiang also viewed the memorial commemorating the signing of the Potsdam Proclamation (July 26, 1945) and signed his name to Brandenburg's guest book in the historic conference room.
At the welcoming luncheon held by the Minister-President of Brandenburg Manfred Stolpe, Jiang stressed the significance of the Potsdam conference to China, pointing out that the Potsdam Proclamation clearly stated that the terms of the Cairo Declaration (1943) should be carried out.
According to the declaration, all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as the four northeastern provinces, Taiwan and the Pescadores, shall be restored to China.
Stolpe thanked Jiang for China's support to the German unification, noting that he believed China will achieve its reunification.
Early Wednesday, in Berlin, Jiang made a speech at the German Society for Foreign Affairs in which he said that China maintains that the right way to maintain world peace and common development is to respect all countries and their peoples' willingness and interests.
Jiang put forward five tentative ideas:
Actively promote the formation of a multi-polarized world, which benefits all countries and peoples and helps establish a just and rational new world political and economic order.
Promote the democratization of international relations and resolve foremost problems with the efforts of all nations and peoples; Insist that countries resolve conflicts through negotiation and co-ordination and follow United Nations Charter and basic principles of international relations.
Respect the diversity of the world and maintain peaceful co-existence among countries with different cultures and social systems.
Lead economic globalization to the balanced development of the world economy so as to narrow the gap between the rich and poor.
Establish the new security concept based on mutual benefit, mutual trust, equality and cooperation.
Jiang, in his speech, stressed that China supports the war against any form of terrorism, but reaffirmed that the fight should follow the principles of the UN Charter, the relevant norms of international laws and eliminate double standards.
Jiang said that China is a peace-loving country, noting the facts have proved that China upholds justice, keeps its promise not to join a military bloc or pursue hegemony and power politics.
China has made its contributions to the safeguarding of world peace and stability and has promoted the common development of the human race, he said.
Moreover, China is still far behind developed countries in the world on economic development, according to Jiang, who maintained that advancing China's modernization drive will remain a basic task long into the future.
China needs a sustained peaceful international environment and is willing to develop friendly relations with other countries.
On the China-EU (European Union) relations, Jiang said that the two economies are highly complementary and share extensive common interests.
Turning to Sino-Germany relations, Jiang said that as countries of major influence in the world, China and Germany should strengthen cooperation and further develop relations.
(China Daily April 11, 2002)
