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MAC urges Beijing to face ROC

ROC Central News Agency

2012/01/16 22:00:24

By Chen Hung-chin and S.C. Chang

Taipei, Jan. 16 (CNA) Taiwan's latest elections show that voters value cross-strait peace and stability but also insist on their right to govern themselves, a senior official said Monday, and he urged mainland China to face up to the existence of the Republic of China (ROC).

Mainland Affairs Council Vice Chairman Liu Te-shun was responding to an editorial in the Global Times, a Beijing-controlled newspaper, which called on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to create conditions for signing a peace agreement.

Liu said elections are part of the democratic process that vividly demonstrate one of Taiwan's important core values.

He noted that the results of Saturday's elections -- re-electing President Ma Ying-jeou and awarding a majority of seats to Ma's Kuomintang in the Legislature -- are an indication that the people of Taiwan hope to see stable and peaceful relations across the strait and insist on their right of self-government.

With Ma having secured a second term, Liu said the government will continue to work with mainland authorities through institutionalized consultations to solve problems arising from cross-strait exchanges or those related to people's rights and interests.

In the meantime, he said, mainland China must face the reality of the existence of the ROC as well as the reality of the increasingly frequent exchanges between the two sides of the strait.