Top Legislators vow to fight secession
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-12-29 22:19

Top legislator Wu Bangguo yesterday promised the national legislature will do its best to fully reflect the common will of all Chinese people in making the anti-secession law.

The lawmakers will follow the Constitution and the central authorities' policies on Taiwan, Wu stressed at the closing meeting of the 13th session of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee.

It was also decided at the meeting that the draft anti-secession law be submitted for deliberations at the third full session of the 10th NPC slated for March next year.

The NPC is the highest legislature in China, and Wu is the chairman of the NPC Standing Committee.

Wu said it is one of three major historic tasks of the Chinese Government and the Communist Party of China to achieve the reunification of the motherland. "We have made unremitting efforts for developing relations across the Taiwan Straits and promoting the peaceful reunification of the motherland with our extreme sincerity for a long time," he said.

However, in recent years, the Taiwan authorities have accelerated their secessionist activities for "Taiwan Independence," especially through so-called "constitutional reform." These secessionist activities have become the largest obstacle to the development of cross-Straits relations and the peaceful reunification, and constitute the gravest threat to peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits, he said.

It is "absolutely necessary" to formulate the anti-secession law to fight and curb the secessionists in Taiwan, promote the peaceful reunification of the motherland, maintain peace and stability across the Straits, safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and maintain the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation, he said.

Over the last few years, the people from all walks of life on the Chinese mainland and many overseas Chinese have repeatedly expressed an increasingly strong demand to fight the Taiwan secessionist forces and realize the peaceful reunification of China by legal means. Quite a few Chinese lawmakers and senior advisers have also brought bills, proposals and motions before the NPC, stating that formulating such a law conforms to the will of the people.

"Now the conditions for making the law are ripe," said Wu.

China's Constitution stipulates that Taiwan is an indispensable part of China and realizing the reunification of the motherland is the sacred duty of all Chinese people, including the people in Taiwan. "The stipulation provides a constitutional basis for the formulation of the anti-secession law," he said.

The important thoughts of the three generations of the central collective leadership, especially those of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin, on the Taiwan question, together with a series of state policies, provide clear guidelines and policy foundation for the formulation of the law, he said, adding that the research results of law experts and experts in Taiwan affairs are also beneficial.

"The anti-secession law was drafted after opinions and ideas were solicited from all circles," said Wu.

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