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07-10-99
ROC PRESIDENT'S VIEWS WILL NOT INFLUENCE CROSS-STRAIT TALKS: SEF
Taipei, July 10 (CNA) Taiwan's top negotiator with mainland China
said on Saturday that President Lee Teng-hui's latest views on
cross-strait relations "will by no means influence" proposed
high-level talks across the Taiwan Strait later this year.
Koo Chen-fu, chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF),
made the remarks when he was asked about Lee's views in an interview
with a German radio station on Friday.
In the interview with the Voice of Germany radio, Lee said that
since the Republic of China's constitutional reforms of 1991, the
jurisdiction of the constitution has been confined to Taiwan, and
acknowledges the legality of the People's Republic of China to
exercise its power of rule in mainland China.
Lee said that legislators and National Assembly deputies have
been elected from among the people of Taiwan, as have the president
and vice president.
He went on to say that cross-strait relations are therefore
defined as "nation-to-nation, or at least special nation-to-nation,"
a step away from the stated ROC political line regarding the two
sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Koo said that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait should
pragmatically discuss all matters, and that Taiwan should clearly
state its stance that mainland China and Taiwan are governed by two
separate political entities, so that cross-strait talks can continue
smoothly.
Koo stressed that a scheduled October visit to Taiwan by Chairman
Wang Daohan of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait
will go ahead as scheduled and will not be influenced by Lee's stated
views.
(By Lilian Wu)
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