MOFA REGRETS U.N. SECRETARIAT'S REJECTION OF TAIWAN'S U.N. BID
ROC Central News Agency
2007-07-24 13:42:58
Taipei, July 24 (CNA) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Tuesday that it regrets the U.N. Secretariat's decision to reject Taiwan's request to join the world body under the name of "Taiwan."
MOFA spokesman Wang Chien-yeh was responding to comments by a spokesman of the U.N. Secretariat who said Monday that the U.N. Office of Legal Affairs will not accept Taiwan's application for U.N. membership based on U.N. Resolution 2758 adopted in 1971, which replaced the Republic of China on Taiwan with the People's Republic of China as the sole representative of China in the United Nations.
The resolution establishes that the United Nations follows a "one China" policy, the Office of Legal Affairs said.
Wang said that the U.N. Secretariat's rejection of Taiwan's request was based on "outdated reasons" and that Taiwan thinks there is "nothing new" about the reasons. "The resolution needs to be reviewed, " he said, stressing that "the resolution only deals with the representation of the People's Republic of China and does not deal with the right of the Taiwan people to participation in the organization." "It is unreasonable for the U.N. Secretariat to reject Taiwan's bid without even screening it," he added.
The ministry has urged the United Nations to follow its rules of procedures and respect the spirit of the U.N. Charter by treating Taiwan's bid to join the organization in the same way that it would treat that of any other applicant, Wang said.
MOFA officials said that Taiwan's diplomatic allies Swaziland and the Solomon Islands recently sent letters to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in which they attached a letter by ROC President Chen Shui-bian to the U.N. secretary-general voicing Taiwan's keen desire to become a U.N. member.
(By Lilian Wu)
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