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Beijing: Separatists' moves 'dangerous sign'
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-02-22 13:55
Taiwan authority leader's activities to promote the abolishing of Taiwan's
"National Unification Council" and "National Unification Guideline" are a
dangerous sign of escalation of Taiwan separatists' activities, said a senior
Chinese mainland official Wednesday.
Chen Yunlin (R),
director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, talks with
Tseng Yung-Chuan, head of Taiwan's Kuomintang group in Beijing
February 22, 2006. [Reuters] | "We'll keep
close watch on their activities and prepare to deal with any possible
complicated situation at any time," said Chen Yunlin, director of both the
Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the
Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.
Chen said if the Taiwan authorities insist on the activities of abolishing of
Taiwan's "National Unification Council" and the "National Unification
Guideline", the cross-Straits relations would be severely destroyed and the
fundamental interests of the Taiwan compatriots will be damaged.
"We will do our best with our utmost sincerity to maintain the peace and
stability across the Taiwan Straits regions. At the sametime, we resolutely
oppose any forms of the Taiwan separatists' activities," said
Chen.
Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian said last month that it was time
to consider scrapping the guidelines and the council, which was set up in 1990
and was formerly the island's top policy-making body on the question of
unification. The council has been dormant since Chen took office in 2000 and
ended five decades of Nationalist Party rule.
If Chen dissolved the council and the guidelines, he would break a promise he
made in his 2000 inauguration speech.
Travel to Taiwan island
Chen Yunlin said a regulation on Chinese mainland residents' travel to Taiwan
is being made by the National Tourism Administration and other related
departments and will be released soon.
Preparations for mainland residents' travel to Taiwan has been made by the
mainlandside since the ban on residents' tour to Taiwan was lifted by the
mainland on May 3, 2005.
When meeting with the Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) group headed by KMT
legislative leader Tseng Yung-Chuan, Chen said the regulation is another
important step in promoting mainland citizen's tour to Taiwan.
"We sincerely hope the non-governmental tourism organizations on both sides
of the Straits have talks and make arrangement on this issue as soon as
possible," Chen said.
"We don't object the officials with related departments of Taiwan to join the
talks with non-governmental status," Chen added.
Charter
Flights
The Chinese mainland welcomes exchange of views on the issues of charter
flight across the Taiwan Straits and mainland travelers' visit to the island
with personages from all Taiwan-based political parties and groups, including
the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), who support the development of
cross-Straits relations, Chen said.
"We'd like to exchange views and work with them to jointly push forward the
issues, which are set to benefit the people from the two sides," he said.
"The realization of the charter flight and travel as early as possible is the
common desire of and in the interest of the compatriots from the two sides and
will facilitate the common prosperity and development of Taiwan and the
mainland," said Chen.
The mainland would actively consider and promote in a pragmatic way any
solution or idea that may facilitate the development of cross-Straits personnel
exchange and economic and trade ties and that is in the interest of airline
companies from the two sides, he said.
"We have repeatedly said that we hope the civil aviation trade organizations
from the two sides to conduct as early as possible their consultation on holiday
and routine passenger flights and cargo flights on the basis of the current
operation models," he said.
Consultation on concrete operational issues to that effect havebeen fully
discussed and some initial results have been achieved, he said.
"We've never set any precondition or excluded any consultation on the cargo
charter flight issue," he said, calling on the Taiwanauthorities, starting from
the real interests of the Taiwan peopleand the airlines, to approve earlier
consultation between the airlines.
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