【答案解析】International cooperation in the field of health must be based on the important principle of the UN Charter—respect for state sovereignty and territorial integrity. China attaches importance to international health cooperation and practices the principle of respect for state sovereignty and territorial integrity in international cooperation. We hope that other countries will do the same. To respect others is to respect oneself. // I believe that no sovereign state in this world will allow one of its provinces or areas to participate in a UN agency that is only open to sovereign states. This allowed, the world would go out of order and the international law would become meaningless. International organizations would also be deprived of the basis for effective performance of their functions. It is therefore not a technical issue. It is an issue of important principle. For China, it is also an issue that bears on the sentiments of 1.3 billion people. // A small number of countries have been, year after year, raising a question that was already solved long ago in the 70s of the last century, a question that is completely out of the scope of deliberations of this specialized agency and totally irrelevant to the world health and medical undertakings. It is simply a waste of the precious resources of the WHO and the time and energy of the overwhelming majority of the delegates. //Such an act in blatant defiance of relevant resolutions of the UN General Assembly and the Constitution of the WHO constitutes grave encroachment on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a member state. It is of disservice to the cooperation among all countries in the field of health and is certainly not conducive to the sound development of the WHO. // A few countries dished out Taiwan-related proposals in the General Committee six times in a row in the past six years. And six times, the General Committee upheld justice and turned them down. Facts have proven that whatever forms the proposals take, they cannot avoid ending in failure. // We call upon all member states of the Committee to support the position of the Chinese delegation and hold by the righteous decisions of the Assembly and the Committee and do not incorporate the Taiwan-related proposal into the Provisional Agenda of the Assembly. We are confident that the Committee will defend justice and safeguard the dignity and legal effect of the UN General Assembly and WHA resolutions. // Thank you, Mr Chairman. (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)