US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken called on the UN state to support Taiwan’s full-fledged participation in the organization’s activities. This is stated in a statement distributed on Tuesday on the State Department’s website, reports TASS.
“We call on all UN member states to join us in support of the active and significant participation of Taiwan in the entire United Nations system and the international community,” the statement says. According to Blinken, “the exception of Taiwan undermines the UN’s important work and the bodies related to it.”
Until 1971, China’s place in the UN belonged to Taiwan, where the remnants of the troops of Chan Kaisi fled at the end of the civil war. The United States insisted that they represented China’s people and opposed the transfer of the place of the People’s Republic of China. However, 50 years ago, the UN General Assembly decided that it was the PRC that was a genuine representative of the country’s people.
Taiwan is managed by his own administration since 1949, when the remains of the Romintang’s forces led by Chan Kaisha (1887-1975) were fled to the island, the victims of the defeat in the civil war in China. Since then, Taiwan retains the flag and some other attributes of the Republic of China, which existed on the mainland before coming to the power of the Communists. Beijing believes the island of one of the provinces of the PRC.