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China outlines its opposition to Taiwan's UN bid

China has fired off a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warning that Taiwan's bid to join the UN amounts to a "gross encroachment on China's internal affairs," state press said yesterday.

Chinese ambassador to the UN Wang Guangya (王光亞) sent the letter on Monday outlining Beijing's firm opposition to Taiwan's 13th bid to join the world body.

Wang criticized the move as a "brazen violation" of the purposes and principles of the UN Charter.

"Taiwan is a part of China's territory and it has never been a country. There is only one China in the world, and China's sovereignty and territorial integrity brook no division," the letter said, according to the China Daily.

This year, Taipei issued a statement warning that Beijing's opposition "definitely will not help improve cross-strait ties but hurt peace in the Taiwan Strait."

Wang told Annan that significant changes had taken place in Taiwan, "where the `Taiwan independence' secessionists have intensified their activities, threatening the peaceful and stable development of cross-Straits [sic] relations."

"This has increasingly become the biggest obstacle to the growth of cross-Straits relations as well as the biggest immediate threat to peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits [sic]," he was quoted as saying.

The UN General Assembly is expected to debate whether to table Taiwan's membership bid after it opens on Sept. 13.
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