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BEIJING, April 13
(Xinhuanet) -- The mainland is implementing the consensus reached during
talks with the first visiting Kuomintang (KMT) delegation from Taiwan, a
spokesman of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said here
Wednesday.
"Relevant departments are
concretely researching the results of talks with the KMT delegation, and
detailed measures will be announced in the near future," said Li Weiyi,
the spokesman.
In late March, the KMT
delegation headed by KMT Vice Chairman Chiang Pin-kung launched an
"icebreaking trip" to the mainland. They visited party martyrs' tomb in
Guangzhou, party founder Dr. Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum in Nanjing and the
cenotaph of Sun in Beijing.
The delegation also had
meetings or held talks with senior leaders and officials of the central
authorities, discussing 12 issues regarding the promotion of cross-Straits
exchanges and cooperation in economic and trade sectors and reaching
certain consensus.
Li said that the consensus
received positive response from the Chinese people on both sides of the
Taiwan Straits, and would play an active role in promoting the peaceful
development of cross-strait relations.
According to Li,
Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the mainland-based Straits
Aviation Exchange Commission Pu Zhaozhou sent two messages to the head of
the Taipei Aviation Transportation Association on March 11 and April 6.
In his messages, Pu
expressed the hope that the two bodies would begin a new round of
exchanges as early as possible, to discuss details about the launch of
cross-Straits direct chartered flights during traditional Chinese
festivals and holidays, or the running of direct chartered flights on a
regular basis.
"Regrettably, so far we
haven't received any response from the Taiwan side," said Li.
Asked to comment on the
judicial investigation filed against Chiang Pin-kung, head of the KMT
delegation, following his return to Taiwan, Li said such action was taken
out of "certain ideological considerations" regardless of the public
opinion in Taiwan, and was a "backslide" activity not only against the
trends of development of cross-Straits exchanges, but also against the
vital interests of the Taiwan people.
"I don't think this incident
will affect the planned visits to the mainland by KMT Chairman Lien Chan
and People First Party Chairman James Soong," said
Li. |