Q: Recently the US Congress has
approved the motion supporting Taiwans participating
in the World Health Assembly (WHA) as an observer. What is
your comment on this?
A: Despite of
Chinas objection, the US Congress persisted in passing
the motion supporting Taiwans participating in the
World Health Assembly as an observer. China expresses its
strong dissatisfaction and firm objection to this move. And
China has again lodged solemn representations to the US side
on this issue.
Taiwan is a part of China.
According to the relevant resolutions of the United Nations
General Assembly and the regulations of the World Health
Organization (WHO), Taiwan is unqualified to join the WHO as
a member or as a quasi-member. Neither is Taiwan qualified
to participate in the World Health Assembly as an
observer.
Chinas central
government has always been very concerned with the well
being of the Taiwan compatriots. It has actively promoted
exchange and cooperation across the Taiwan Straits in the
health field. Since the outbreak of SARS, the central
government has been sharing related information and
experience with Taiwan and supported the inspection of WHO
experts in Taiwan. Taiwans channel of obtaining health
information is unblocked.
It is clear that the
Taiwan authorities wishes to make a political issue in the
name of SARS, in order to create two Chinas or
one China, one Taiwan in the international
community. Since 1997, such an attempt by the Taiwan
authorities has been defeated for six consecutive years.
This year it is doomed to failure again.
We
urge the US government to see clearly the political
maneuvers by the Taiwan authorities, abide by the one-China
policy and the three Sino-US Joint Communiqués. It
should object definitively to the above motion by not
supporting Taiwans participation in the WHO, in order
to avoid obstacles to the development of Sino-US relations.
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