UN rejection of Taiwan bid lauded

Beijing yesterday praised the latest decision by the UN General Assembly to reject a vote on Taiwan's attempt to join the world body, saying it demonstrates that no one can change the fact that "Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territories".

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu made the remarks after the General Committee of the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly decided not to include the so-called issue of "Taiwan's participation in the United Nations" on the agenda of the General Assembly on Wednesday.

"This again shows that... any act that is against the UN Charter and Resolution 2758 will gain no support of the vast majority of the UN member states, and any attempt to challenge the one-China policy and split China will doom to fail," said Jiang.