A Chinese mainland official has lashed out at Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian's UN bid, saying Chen's secessionist activities are "the biggest menace" to the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
Chen's risky moves are, step by step, edging the cross-Strait relations to "a more perilous situation", said Sun Yafu, vice-director with the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, at a two-day symposium which concluded here on Tuesday, according to a statement released by the office on Thursday.
Taiwan authorities sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in July, raising an application to join the United Nations in the name of "Taiwan". Meanwhile, Chen Shui-bian has been recklessly pushing for a plan to hold a "referendum" in Taiwan on its entry to the United Nations.
Chen's "Taiwan independence" secessionist activities are "the biggest scourge to China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity, the biggest obstacle to the development of cross-Strait relations, and the biggest menace to cross-Strait peace and stability," Sun said.
China considers safeguarding the national sovereignty and territorial integrity its core interest.
Sun said the mainland will continue to promote peaceful development of cross-Strait relations and peaceful reunification "with utmost sincerity and utmost effort", because they are two causes in line with the fundamental interests of both the Taiwan people and people on the mainland.
However, "the mainland will never swallow down the bitter fruit of 'Taiwan independence' and will never allow anyone to make Taiwan secede from China in any manner," Sun said.
The secessionist activities are against the trend of China's development and the will of the Chinese nation, said the official, adding that it will surely end in failure.
The symposium on "Prevention and Management of Taiwan Strait Crises" was jointly held by the Taiwan Research Center of the elite Peking University and the Global Forum of Chinese Political Scientists (GFCPS).
The two-day event has attracted noted Chinese scholars from the mainland, Hong Kong, and countries including the United States, Japan and Australia.
Source: Xinhua
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