UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- China's permanent representative to the United Nations Fu Cong on Monday once again urged the Japanese side to retract erroneous remarks on Taiwan.
Fu made this statement at an open debate of the UN Security Council on leadership for peace.
Noting that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, Fu said leadership for peace begins with "cherishing peace and upholding justice."
"At a time when the international community is reflecting on history and planning for the future, it is outrageous that Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has gone against the trend by claiming that the so-called survival-threatening situation for Japan is linked to Taiwan of China, and by implying and threatening that Japan would militarily intervene in the Taiwan question," he said.
"This constitutes a blatant interference in China's internal affairs, openly contravenes the commitments made by Japan as a defeated state in World War II to China and the international community, directly challenges the victorious outcomes of World War II and the post-war international order, violates the basic norms governing international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, and poses serious risks to peace in Asia and globally," said Fu.
The lessons of World War II are still fresh. Eighty years ago, Japanese militarists expanded armaments under the pretext of a so-called survival-threatening situation and launched external aggression in the name of self-defense, bringing profound catastrophes to China, the wider Asia and the whole world, he said.
"Eighty years on, we must never allow the resurgence of militarism and fascism," said Fu. "China, once again, urges the Japanese side to retract these erroneous remarks, earnestly reflect upon and repent the wrongdoings, and refrain from continuing down the wrong path."
Fu said Japan's return of Taiwan, which it had unlawfully seized, to China, constitutes an important component of the post-war international order.
"Taiwan is an inalienable part of the territory of China. This is an ironclad fact jointly affirmed in political and legal terms," he said. ■