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Moon caught with foot in mouth...
UN Head Criticized for Saying Taiwan Is 'Part of China'
August 07, 2007 - As Taiwan pursues its campaign for recognition in the international community, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has come under fire for stating that a 1971 U.N. resolution says Taiwan is a part of China.
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General Assembly resolution 2758 gave the U.N.'s "China" seat -- held up to that point by the nationalist Republic of China (ROC) government located in Taipei, Taiwan -- to the communist People's Republic of China (PRC) government in Beijing. The resolution did not pass judgment on the status of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as a rebel province. Thirty-six years after losing its seat, the Taiwanese government last month submitted an application to join the U.N. under the name "Taiwan," having failed on 14 previous occasions when applying under the name "ROC."
(Applying as the "ROC," Taipei officials said, recalled an earlier era when the nationalist Chinese in Taiwan claimed all of China; now, the application is being made on behalf of a self-governing democracy of 23 million people, altogether independent of China.) Nonetheless, the U.N. Secretariat rejected the latest application, and in an explanation of the decision, Ban cited resolution 2758.
The resolution, he said, stipulated that "the government of China is the sole and legitimate government and the position of the United Nations is that Taiwan is part of China." But Ban got it wrong, experts pointed out. While the resolution recognized the PRC as the only legitimate representative of China at the U.N., it "said nothing at all about Taiwan being part of China," noted American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Gary Schmitt in an article posted Monday.
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