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January 22, 2009, Thursday
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A CHINESE mainland official yesterday refuted media reports that a Taiwan leader's office staffer leaked secrets to the mainland.
State Council Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman Yang Yi said: "It is a mere fabrication."
Yang said some Taiwan media reported that confidential documents had been leaked to the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait by one of Ma Ying-jeou's staffers.
According to media reports, that staffer was Wang Ren-bing. He was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of leaking information to the mainland.
Set up in 1991, the ARATS is a non-governmental organization authorized by the mainland to handle cross-Strait issues.
Yang said the next round of talks between the mainland and Taiwan, scheduled for later this year, will retain a focus on economic issues.
Talks between the mainland and Taiwan are conducted through ARATS and the island's Strait Exchange Foundation.
The talks were suspended for almost 10 years until last June, when ARATS leader Chen Yunlin and SEF chief Chiang Pin-kung held their first meeting in Beijing. The second meeting was held in Taiwan in November.
The mainland and Taiwan have reached several economic agreements at previous talks, but so far no political issues have been touched upon.
"A consensus is that the talks should still focus on economic issues which people across the Strait are most concerned about," Yang told reporters.
The topics will include regular cross-Strait flights, cooperation between financial agencies, joint crackdowns on crime, the protection of intellectual property rights, quality inspections and the quarantining of agricultural products, the avoidance of double taxation, investment protection and permanent bureaus for media organizations.
Yang also told reporters that the mainland had destroyed more than 40 tons of pesticide-contaminated Taiwan oranges.
The oranges, among a total of 1,230 tons shipped from Taiwan in December and January, were found to have the poisonous pesticide acephatemet (methamidophos) on their skins, Yang said.
He said mainland buyers and Taiwan sellers reached an agreement earlier this month and had all the tainted fruit destroyed. None of the oranges made it into the market, and the cost of the destroyed fruit wasn't given.
Yang didn't say how the contamination was discovered in this case.
State Council Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman Yang Yi said: "It is a mere fabrication."
Yang said some Taiwan media reported that confidential documents had been leaked to the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait by one of Ma Ying-jeou's staffers.
According to media reports, that staffer was Wang Ren-bing. He was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of leaking information to the mainland.
Set up in 1991, the ARATS is a non-governmental organization authorized by the mainland to handle cross-Strait issues.
Yang said the next round of talks between the mainland and Taiwan, scheduled for later this year, will retain a focus on economic issues.
Talks between the mainland and Taiwan are conducted through ARATS and the island's Strait Exchange Foundation.
The talks were suspended for almost 10 years until last June, when ARATS leader Chen Yunlin and SEF chief Chiang Pin-kung held their first meeting in Beijing. The second meeting was held in Taiwan in November.
The mainland and Taiwan have reached several economic agreements at previous talks, but so far no political issues have been touched upon.
"A consensus is that the talks should still focus on economic issues which people across the Strait are most concerned about," Yang told reporters.
The topics will include regular cross-Strait flights, cooperation between financial agencies, joint crackdowns on crime, the protection of intellectual property rights, quality inspections and the quarantining of agricultural products, the avoidance of double taxation, investment protection and permanent bureaus for media organizations.
Yang also told reporters that the mainland had destroyed more than 40 tons of pesticide-contaminated Taiwan oranges.
The oranges, among a total of 1,230 tons shipped from Taiwan in December and January, were found to have the poisonous pesticide acephatemet (methamidophos) on their skins, Yang said.
He said mainland buyers and Taiwan sellers reached an agreement earlier this month and had all the tainted fruit destroyed. None of the oranges made it into the market, and the cost of the destroyed fruit wasn't given.
Yang didn't say how the contamination was discovered in this case.
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