| Countries support Anti-Secession Law(Xinhua/China Daily)
 Updated: 2005-03-16 23:02
 
 
 More countries from around the world expressed support on Tuesday 
for China's adoption of the Anti-Secession Law, which intends to prevent the 
secession of Taiwan from China and clarify China's position on the Taiwan 
question.
 Cecile Pozzo di Borgo, deputy spokeswoman of the French Foreign 
Ministry, said her country firmly supports China's policy for reunification and 
adheres to the one-China principle.
 Referring to the newly passed Anti-Secession Law, she said France understands 
China's stance on promoting dialogue across the Taiwan Straits and firmly 
supports China's efforts to realize national reunification.
 Meanwhile, 
Cuba's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that "Cuba, from the very triumph of 
the revolution, has supported the territorial integrity of China and the cause 
of the Chinese national reunification."
 
 The Anti-Secession Law will help 
promote peaceful reunification, maintain peace and stability across the Taiwan 
Straits and safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity of China, 
it said.
 
 Kenya's parliament and government also voiced support for the 
law aimed at peaceful reunification of the country.
 
 "Kenya, as a friend 
of China, has always supported the one-China policy and will never support 
Taiwan's secession from China," Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya, 
Francis Ole Kaparo, said while meeting with Chinese Ambassador to Kenya Guo 
Chongli.
 
 The Kuwaiti Government and parliament support China's adoption 
of the Anti-Secession Law, Kuwaiti National Assembly Speaker Jasim Mohmmad 
Al-Kharafi said while meeting with Chinese ambassador Wu Jiuhong.
 
 Kuwait 
said it believes that the adoption of the Anti-Secession Law will contribute to 
China's stability, development and reunification, Al-Kharafi 
said.
 
 Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa hailed the newly passed law, 
saying he is extremely pleased to see the enactment of the Anti-Secession Law by 
the National People's Congress, China's legislature, in Beijing on 
Monday.
 
 Mwanawasa said Zambia supports the one-China policy and strongly 
believes that Taiwan is an integral part of China.
 
 Madagascar Foreign 
Minister Marcel Ranjeva said Tuesday night that his country views the law as 
part of China's efforts to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity 
in a statement broadcast on state television.
 
 At a meeting with visiting 
Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, Speaker of the House of Representatives of 
Bosnia-Herzegovina Sefik Dzaferovic said his country respects, understands and 
supports China's adoption of the Anti-Secession Law.
 
 Dzaferovic said his 
country appreciates China's efforts to pursue peaceful reunification, and 
safeguard state sovereignty and territorial integrity, noting that the adoption 
of the law will facilitate a peaceful solution to the Taiwan 
question.
 
 Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry of Nepal said in a statement 
Wednesday that the Nepalese Government, in conformity with its long-held 
one-China policy, considers Taiwan as an integral part of China.
 
 It said 
the Nepalese Government believes that the anti-secession legislation enacted by 
China's National People's Congress will contribute to achieving the goal of 
reunification of Taiwan with the People's Republic of China.
 
 
 
  
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