BEIJING, April 13 (Xinhuanet) -- The mainland is implementing the consensus reached during talks with the first visiting Kuomintang (KMT) delegation from Taiwan, a spokesman of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said here Wednesday.

    "Relevant departments are concretely researching the results of talks with the KMT delegation, and detailed measures will be announced in the near future," said Li Weiyi, the spokesman.

    In late March, the KMT delegation headed by KMT Vice Chairman Chiang Pin-kung launched an "icebreaking trip" to the mainland. They visited party martyrs' tomb in Guangzhou, party founder Dr. Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum in Nanjing and the cenotaph of Sun in Beijing.

    The delegation also had meetings or held talks with senior leaders and officials of the central authorities, discussing 12 issues regarding the promotion of cross-Straits exchanges and cooperation in economic and trade sectors and reaching certain consensus.

    Li said that the consensus received positive response from the Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits, and would play an active role in promoting the peaceful development of cross-strait relations.

    According to Li, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of themainland-based Straits Aviation Exchange Commission Pu Zhaozhou sent two messages to the head of the Taipei Aviation Transportation Association on March 11 and April 6.

    In his messages, Pu expressed the hope that the two bodies would begin a new round of exchanges as early as possible, to discuss details about the launch of cross-Straits direct chartered flights during traditional Chinese festivals and holidays, or the running of direct chartered flights on a regular basis.

    "Regrettably, so far we haven't received any response from the Taiwan side," said Li.

    Asked to comment on the judicial investigation filed against Chiang Pin-kung, head of the KMT delegation, following his return to Taiwan, Li said such action was taken out of "certain ideological considerations" regardless of the public opinion in Taiwan, and was a "backslide" activity not only against the trends of development of cross-Straits exchanges, but also against the vital interests of the Taiwan people.

    "I don't think this incident will affect the planned visits to the mainland by KMT Chairman Lien Chan and People First Party Chairman James Soong," said Li.   Enditem