China, Nauru formally re-establish diplomatic ties
CHINA and Nauru yesterday signed a joint communique in Beijing on the resumption of diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, held talks with Nauru’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Lionel Aingimea and signed the joint communique.
This makes Nauru the 183rd country to have diplomatic ties with China.
According to the joint communique, the Government of Nauru recognizes that there is but one China in the world, the Government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal Government representing the whole of China, and Taiwan is an inalienable part of
China’s territory.
The joint communique said that the Government of Nauru shall sever “diplomatic relations” with Taiwan as of this day and undertakes that it shall no longer develop any official relations or official exchanges with Taiwan.
The two governments agree to exchange ambassadors as early as possible and to provide each other with all the necessary assistance for the establishment of embassies, it added.
“Today, the China-Nauru ties have opened a new chapter,” Wang said, adding that although China and Nauru are geographically separated by oceans, the friendship between the two peoples has a long history. As developing countries, both sides are faced with the common tasks of developing economy, improving people’s livelihood and realizing modernization.
As members of the Global South, the two sides share the same will to safeguard their own sovereignty and independence, safeguard the common interests of developing countries, and promote an equal and orderly multi-polar world and economic globalization that benefits all. This is the fundamental logic that has brought them closer and will bring broad prospects for cooperation, he said.
Wang stressed that the resumption of ties between China and Nauru once again shows to the world that adherence to the one-China principle is an irresistible historical trend.