BEIJING, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland
hopes to resume talks across the Taiwan Straits based on the 1992 Consensus
highlighting the one-China principle, said a mainland official here Wednesday.
"We haven't changed our stance to stick to the 1992
Consensus, say no to 'Taiwan independence,' seek stability and peaceful
development across the Straits and protect the interests of people on both
sides," said Yang Yi, the spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State
Council.
He made the remarks when answering a question about
whether the mainland will try and reestablish the mechanism between the
Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and the Straits
Exchange Foundation (SEF), or find a new channel to work for a peace agreement
across the Straits.
The 1992 Consensus was reached at a meeting between
the ARATS from the mainland and SEF from Taiwan in 1992, in which both sides
recognized that there is only one China in the world but agreed to differ on its
explanation.
Chinese President Hu Jintao in his keynote speech to
the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) called for
discussions across the Taiwan Straits for a formal end to the state of hostility
and reaching a peace agreement on the basis of the one-China principle.
