【答案解析】The assertion by the Taiwan authorities and a handful of WHO members that SARS control in Taiwan is undermined by Taiwan's exclusion from the WHO is totally untrue and groundless. The Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits are bound by blood and our hearts reach out for each other. Since the outbreak of SARS in Taiwan, the Chinese Central Government has been deeply concerned about the health of Taiwan compatriots and swiftly taken a series of measures to enhance exchanges and cooperation across the Straits. //We have provided to our counterparts in Taiwan the information about the status of the disease, its prevention and treatment measures and related policies through professional medical agencies and, in addition, we have invited Taiwan professionals to Guangzhou and Beijing for field inspection on the prevention and treatment of the disease. // In late April, health and medical groups and organizations of the two sides conducted the "Symposium on the Prevention and Control of SARS on Both Sides of the Taiwan Straits" which was attended also by medical experts from Taiwan. On 9 May, the two sides jointly held a tele-video seminar on SARS with the participation of experts from Beijing, Guangdong and Taiwan. // Their academic discussions on the prevention of the disease yielded great results. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention has also provided SARS test reagents for the Taiwan disease prevention authorities. The Red Cross Society of China has proposed to provide medical donations to Taiwan through the Taiwanese Red Cross Organization for the prevention and treatment of SARS. // In the meantime, the Chinese Central Government has agreed that the WHO dispatch experts to Taiwan to investigate the SARS situation there and that the medical experts from Taiwan can attend a global SARS science conference to be held by the WHO in June this year. People on both sides of the Taiwan Straits are of the same blood, and blood is thicker than water. We have made it clear on many occasions that if Taiwan needs additional information and technical assistance from the WHO and submits their requests to the Central Government, we will readily consider their requests. // However, while medical experts across the Straits are joining hands in their efforts to fight SARS, the Taiwan authorities are using SARS as the political ploy for their separatist activities. Under the pretext of SARS control, they have used money and instigated a small number of countries to join their clamoring for their participation in the World Health Assembly. // Their true motive is not to develop health undertakings of Taiwan but to create "two Chinas" or "one China, one Taiwan" in the international community. Such act of taking advantage of others' temporary difficulties to pursue one's own interests is unwise and totally unacceptable morally. The political attempts of the Taiwan authorities have all met with failure in the past six years. This year will see the same result. // (Excerpts from the speech by Wu Yi, former Vice Premier and Minister of Health, on Taiwan-related Proposal at General Committee of 56th World Health Assembly on May 20, 2003)