Tsai: Taiwan Unlikely to Accept Deadline for Agreeing to 1992 Consensus

 Tsai: Taiwan Unlikely to Accept Deadline for Agreeing to 1992 Consensus

Source: All Taipei Newspapers

Jul. 25, 2016

During her first exclusive interview with Lally Weymouth, a senior associate editor of the US’s Washington Post, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) stated that, “It isn’t likely that the government of Taiwan will accept a deadline for conditions that are against the will of the people” in response to the question “Some academics say Xi has a certain deadline by which he wants you to agree to the 1992 consensus. Is that right?”

 In response, Ma Xiaoguang(馬曉光), a spokesperson of the Mainland Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) under the State Council, stated that “the 1992 Consensus is the political foundation for the peaceful development of cross-Strait ties.”

 The spokesman went on to say that "Only by sticking to the 1992 Consensus and its core meaning -- that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same China -- can the two sides ensure the peaceful and stable development of cross-Strait ties," adding that the people on both sides of the Strait wanted to maintain peaceful ties.

 According to Ma, the liaison and communication mechanism between the Mainland’s TAO and Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, and the consultation and negotiation mechanism between the Mainland’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits and Taiwan’s Straits Exchange Foundation had been established upon the political foundation of the 1992 Consensus.

 "Only by recognizing this political foundation that embodies the one China policy can institutional communication between the two sides continue," Ma concluded.

Attachment : none