Taiwan's attempts to enter WHA will fail

The one-China principle has multinational backing and the tricks played by a few countries including the United States to call for Taiwan's participation in the 74th session of the World Health Assembly will fail, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Friday.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Assembly will be held virtually from Monday to June 1 and Taiwan has not been invited to participate in the event.

"To safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity as well as defend the seriousness and authority of resolutions made by the United Nations General Assembly and the WHA, China could not approve of the Taiwan region's participation in this year's WHA," Zhao said at a regular news briefing in Beijing.

The spokesman pointed out that Taiwan's participation in activities of international organizations, including the WHO, which consists of sovereign nations, must be handled in accordance with the one-China principle and that is an important principle established by UNGA Resolution 2758 and WHA Resolution 25.1.

China's decision has also been supported and understood by the international community.

As of Thursday, more than 150 countries voiced their support through diplomatic channels and nearly 80 member states wrote to WHO in support of the one-China principle and to show their objection to Taiwan's participation in the WHA74.

"It shows that the one-China principle has people's backing and that most people uphold justice in this issue," he said, adding that the few countries' tricks to boast about the Democratic Progressive Party and call for Taiwan's participation in the event will fail.

In fact, on the basis of the cross-Straits consensus on the one-China principle, China had made special arrangements for Taiwan's participation in the WHA before 2016.

But since the DPP got into power, it placed political attempts above the people's welfare and stubbornly insisted on the "Taiwan independence" separatist position and refused to recognize the 1992 Consensus that embodies the one-China principle, Zhao said.