Proposal to UN on Taiwan slammed

The Foreign Ministry yesterday criticized a proposal by some countries to allow Taiwan to participate in UN agencies.

It urged these countries not to disturb the warming of cross-Straits relations.

As the UN and its agencies are "intergovernmental organizations composed only of sovereign states, the proposal by countries including Nauru and Gambia has encroached upon China's sovereignty and territorial integrity and interfered in China's internal affairs", the ministry's spokesman Qin Gang said at a regular press briefing.