Beijing/Washington D.C.: The Taiwan issue has snowballed into a full fledged faceoff between the USA and China with both countries accusing each other of distorting the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2785 on Taiwan to suit their respective motives.
Recently, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken particularly stressed that Taiwan’s meaningful participation in the UN system is not a political issue, but a pragmatic one. US officials also claimed that China “abused” UNGA Resolution 2758.
Terming Blinken’s statement as a “distortion of historical facts”, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin today took pains to “shed some light on the truth”, so as to establish that the Taiwan region is an inalienable part of the Chinese territory, and that the government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China.
Wenbin declared that the one-China principle brooks no challenge and Resolution 2758 cannot be distorted. “Fifty years ago, the attempt by a few countries to reject the one-China principle and obstruct the passing of Resolution 2758 was foiled. Fifty years later, anyone that tries to challenge the one-China principle and Resolution 2758 will suffer a greater defeat,” he stated.
He went on to warn that the system, agencies and the Secretariat of the UN should abide by the one-China principle and UNGA Resolution 2758 when dealing with Taiwan-related affairs. These principles, he claimed, have been universally recognized by the international community since half a century ago.
Elaborating on Resolution 2758, he claimed that fifty years ago, before the UNGA reviewed the draft resolution submitted by Albania and Algeria, known as Resolution 2758, the US and some other few countries put forward the so-called reverse-IQ draft resolution and the “dual representation” draft resolution in order to retain the Taiwan authorities’ seat. The former required that any proposal to deprive Taiwan of representation at the UN would require a two-thirds supermajority for approval, and the latter required accepting the representatives of the PRC while retaining the representation of Taiwan. “The reverse-IQ draft resolution failed to pass. With the adoption of Resolution 2758, the PRC has fully restored its lawful seat at the UN. The “dual representation” proposal by the few countries including the US immediately became null and void,” he claimed.
– global bihari bureau
