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The Chinese government firmly opposes a bill passed by the US House of Representatives on March 11 to support Taiwan's participation in the World Health Organization (WHO), Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said Friday.
Kong said that as part of China, Taiwan was unqualified to join the WHO or assume observer status at the World Health Assembly because members of the global body were sovereign states.
Since 1997, the assembly had rejected several proposals for Taiwan to take part in the WHO, he noted.
The bill, violating the norm of international law and the principles of three Sino-US joint communiqués, interfered China's internal affairs and was doomed to fail, he said.
The Chinese government had made solemn representations to the US government about the bill, he stressed.
(Xinhua News Agency March 14, 2003)
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