It
submit
Taiwan's Application for the Membership of GATT ( November 20, 1989)
about
to
Agreement
is reported that the Taiwan Authorities are
their application for accession to the General
Tariffs and Trade. Since Britain is a contracting party to GATT, I am instructed hereby to express the concern and to state
the position of the Chinese Government on this issue to your
on
Government.
The Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole
legal government of China. Taiwan, as a province of China, has
no right to accede to GATT on its own, and GATT should not accept
the so-called accession application of the Taiwan authorities
for consideration.
Firstly, as is known to all, China is one of the original
contracting parties to GATT. The Government of the People's
Republic of China is the sole legal government
Of China, and
Taiwan is part of Chinese territory. This has been affirmed by
the United Nations and its various organs, including GATT. Thus,
at the session held in 1971, the GATT contracting parties decided
to remove the Taiwan Authorities from their observer status in
GATT in accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution 2758.
according to the principles of international law as
well as the provisions of GATT and relevant international
practices, no non-sovereign entity belonging to a state has the
right to conclude international agreements on its own unless it
is permitted or authorised to do so by the central government of
the sovereign state concerned . Thirdly, as stated before, China
Secondly,
is
an original contracting party to GATT.
Since the Government
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