U.S. adopts more cautious attitude towards Taiwan's U.N. bid: FM
ROC Central News Agency
2007-09-06 23:44:27
Taipei, Sept. 6 (CNA) The U.S. government seems to have adopted a more cautious attitude towards Taiwan's bid to join the United Nations under the name of Taiwan, which will help create more room for negotiations between Taiwan and the United States over the U.N. bid issue, Foreign Minister James Huang said Thursday.
Huang made the remarks in response to a White House spokesman's remarks, made after U.S. President George W. Bush held talks with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao prior to the leadership's summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum to be held in Sydney, Australia. "We are concerned very much about this step that Taiwan has undertaken, " the White House's Deputy National Security Advisor Jim Jeffrey told a news conference. "We also don't want to see this blown up too big." "We don't want to see anyone provoked by the actions of the Taiwanese. So, for the moment we're going to stay with our position and continue to exert our good influence on the Taiwanese to see if we can change their position," the spokesman noted.
In response, Huang said that Taiwan understands the concerns expressed by the U.S. government, and that Taiwan has no intention of provoking anyone and looks forward to peaceful development in the region.
Acknowledging that there is a gap between Taiwan's and America's perceptions about the U.N. bid referendum, Huang said the Jeffrey remarks indicates that the U.S. government has adopted a more cautious attitude toward the issue.
Noting that the U.N. bid is a part of Taiwan's democratic development, Huang said the United States should taken Taiwan's democratic development and the overall Asian situation into consideration.
(By T.C. Jiang)
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