‘REASONABLE ARRANGEMENT’:China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said that Taiwan is able to attend the WHA under the political basis of the so-called ‘1992 consensus’
Taipei Times
Date: May 08, 2016
By: Staff writer, with CNA
Presidential Office spokesman Charles Chen (陳以信) on Friday confirmed that the nation had
President-elect Tsai Ing-wen yesterday declines to comment on the WHA invitation as she attends a meeting of the Taiwan Pharmacist Association in Taipei. Photo: CNA
received an invitation from the WHO to send officials to its annual World Health Assembly (WHA), which is to be held in Geneva later this month, adding that it would be passed on to the new government under president-elect Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文).
For the past seven years, the WHO has sent an invitation to Taiwan to attend the WHA as an observer under the name “Chinese Taipei.”
What is different this time is that the invitation mentioned UN Resolution No. 2758 and the “one China” principle, which is understood to mean that there is only “one China,” with Beijing interpreting that as the People’s Republic of China (PRC) encompassing Taiwan.
The resolution was passed on Oct. 25, 1971, and recognized the PRC as “the only legitimate representative of China to the UN,” expelling the representatives of the Republic of China (ROC).
This year’s meeting is to be held in Geneva from May 23 to May 28, shortly after the inauguration of Tsai on May 20. [FULL STORY]
