Overseas media spoke highly of Chinese President Hu Jintao's important speech on relations across the Taiwan Straits last week.

Hu's speech, a true reflex of the popular will among the Chinese people, fully demonstrated the government's sincerity in solving the Taiwan issue and certainly will secure a public approval in the island, the New Zealand Mirror newspaper said on Tuesday.

Chinese people living abroad, both from the mainland and Taiwan,have a deep understanding about "home" and hope to see the Chinese nation's rejuvenation, the newspaper said.

It pointed out that a peaceful reunification will benefit not only the people across the straits but also the whole world.

World News, a Chinese-language newspaper in the Philippines, said the speech made clear that the Chinese government, with utmost sincerity, is still striving for a peaceful solution to the Taiwan issue.

Hu's speech also reiterated the government's position on the issue and urged Taiwanese authorities to acknowledge the one-China principle and the "1992 Consensus," the newspaper said in an editorial.

Spanish newspaper ABC said the speech, aimed at restraining the activities of pro-independence separatist forces in Taiwan, sent a clear signal to Taiwanese authorities that the Chinese government and people will never tolerate "Taiwan independence."

Last Friday, Hu set forth a four-point guideline on the relations across the Taiwan Straits "under new circumstances" while joining in a joint panel discussion of members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, who represents the Taiwan region.

The Chinese people will do their best to seek peaceful reunification of the motherland but will never tolerate "Taiwan independence," the president noted in his speech.