China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya on Wednesday rejected Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian's second letter on Taiwan's membership bid to the United Nations as another "petty trick" by an "international troublemaker."
Wang said he returned the letter on Tuesday in his capacity as the president of the U.N. Security Council, saying he believes the U.N. Secretariat will soon take the same action.
Chen's first letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in which he applied for U.N. membership under the name of Taiwan, was returned by the U.N. Secretariat on July 20.
Chen Shui-bian's "petty trick" of sending a second letter is an extremely grave separatist move aimed at "Taiwan independence" and has once again exposed himself as a "downright international troublemaker," the ambassador said.
"As is widely known, there is but one China in the world. Taiwan is an inalienable part of the Chinese territory, and the government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legitimate government representing the whole of China," Wang said.
"China's representation naturally covers Taiwan," the ambassador said.
Taiwan, as a part of China, has no qualification whatsoever to join the United Nations under any name or in any way, he stressed.
"This is a stand generally upheld by the international community that fully conforms to the principles of the U.N. Charter," Wang said.
Chen Shui-bian's repeated attempts to challenge the U.N. Charter, Resolution 2758 of the U.N. General Assembly and the one-China principle are extremely unpopular and doomed to failure, the ambassador said.
Wang said China appreciates the United Nations' one-China stance and its maintenance of General Assembly Resolution 2758. He said he believes the government and people of China will continue to have the understanding and support of the U.N. and its members in China's just cause of safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Source: Xinhua
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