Mainland, Taiwan Top Negotiators Hold Talks in Nanjing
04/26/2009 Source: www.chinaview.cn
The mainland-Taiwan relations have ushered into a “new era of peaceful development”, after experiencing “major historic breakthroughs” over the past 60 years, mainland top negotiator on cross-straits relations Chen Yunlin said here Sunday.
Chen, president of the mainland’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), made the remarks at the meeting on cross-straits relations with his Taiwan counterpart Chiang Pin-kung on Sunday morning.
Sunday’s talks would focus on regular cross-straits flights, joint efforts on cracking down on crime and financial cooperation and relevant agreements were expected to be signed in the afternoon, Chen said.
The two sides would also exchange views and try to reach consensus on mainland investment in Taiwan.
Chiang, chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation, said joint efforts on cracking down on crime would be conducive to safeguarding social security on both sides and improving cross-straits investment environment.
If the agreement on financial cooperation was signed, it would set a foundation for market entering threshold of the financial sector, Chiang said.
Regular flights would ease the current shortage of cross-straits flights by increasing the number of both flights and terminals, he said, indicating that the tickets might be cheaper.
“I believe that with the efforts of both sides, the talks will achieve satisfactory results,” said Chen.
Chen and Chiang started their talks at around 9 a.m. in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province.
This was the third round of talks between them in less than a year.
