ARC issues statement on Lien's mainland visit

The Alliance for the Reunification of China (ARC) issued a statement on Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) Party Chairman Lien Chan's mainland visit, referring the reconciliation and cooperation between the KMT and CPC as historical and practical significance at a press conference held in Taipei Wednesday.

The statement says Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Straits should become brothers and sisters who love and care for each other without jealous and suspicious. People on both sides should expand economic, trade and cultural exchanges for their mutual benefit.

In a telephone interview with Xinhua, ARC President Wong Jin Pin said the press communique, signed by Lien Chan and Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) after a meeting in Beijing, reached agreements on three common endorsement and a five-point consensus for "promoting peace and development across the Taiwan Straits."

He called it "a positive contribution that the KMT and CPC had made for the benefits of the motherland and people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits," and said "Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Straits and other parts of the world should render support and a positive assessment to this."

The statement urged separatists in and out of Taiwan to face up to the irreversible historical trend of development of cross-straits relations and give up "Taiwan Independence."

Source: Xinhua