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The town is located on straits between two parts of Lake Saimaa.

Only democracy in China can bring lasting peace to the Taiwan Straits.

The same three countries, together with Thailand, were also beginning air patrols over the Straits of Malacca.

The Chinese Government has been consistently engaged in maintaining peace and stability of the Taiwan Straits and achieving peaceful reunification of China.

During the first Taiwan Straits crisis in 1954, China began shelling the offshore islands Quemoy and Matsu, threatening to liberate Taiwan.

Northeast Asia contains the last remnants of the Cold War the divided Korean Peninsula and hostile glares across the Taiwan Straits.

In 2004, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia had begun coordinated naval patrols of the Straits of Malacca and the Straits of Singapore, which were important for world trade.

It is the Taiwan independence secessionist activities perpetrated by the Taiwan authorities that are the real source of tension in the Taiwan Straits.

The Taiwan authorities must abandon their secessionist position and stop all secessionist activities in the name of Taiwan independence , so that peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits can be maintained.

Thus, the General Committee of the current session of the General Assembly once again rejected, on 13 September 2005, the inclusion of this issue and the so called issue of peace in the Taiwan Straits in the agenda of the General Assembly.

During the just concluded general debate of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly, a very few countries once again raised the issues of so called Taiwan participation in the United Nations and peace in the Taiwan Straits .

We wish more than anybody else to realize national reunification through peaceful means, and China wishes more than any other country to maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits and the Asia Pacific region.

So it is little wonder that it is in these places that most illegal immigration and human trafficking occurs pirates in the Straits of Malacca, fast boats between Albania and Italy, and desperate human cargoes from Africa and Latin America.

It has been proven by ample facts that the secessionist activities in the name of Taiwan independence pose the biggest obstacle to the growth of cross Straits relations as well as the biggest immediate threat to peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits and the Asia Pacific region at large.

Mr. RYDENSKY (Russian Federation) said that his delegation had supported the draft resolution because the Russian Federation had suffered substantial damage from unauthorized fishing of migratory species in its economic zone, especially in the Bering Straits and the Barents and Okhotsk Seas.