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Taiwan National
Alliance to stage parade in Taipei
OUR COUNTRY: The parade to commemorate the San
Francisco Peace Treaty will leave Wanhua Train Station for Ketagalan Boulevard
at 2:28pm today
By Lin Shu-hui / Staff Reporter
To mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty,
the Taiwan National Alliance (TNA) will stage a parade in Taipei this afternoon,
in the hope of letting the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government and the
international community know that ¡§Taiwan does not belong to China.¡¨
Japan signed the San Francisco Peace Treaty with 48 UN member countries
represented in a meeting in San Francisco on Sept. 8, 1951. In the treaty, Japan
declared that it would give up its claims to Taiwan, Penghu and all its other
offshore islands.
The treaty has weight in international law, and it does not say to which party
Japan ceded Taiwan and the Pescadores, TNA spokesperson Yao Chia-wen («À¹Å¤å) said,
meaning Taiwan is not part of China and Taiwanese have the right to establish
their own country.
While the KMT maintains that the 1943 Cairo Communique said that ¡§all
territories Japan had won from China, such as Manchuria [Dongbei], Formosa
[Taiwan] and the Pescadores [Penghu], shall be restored to the Republic of
China,¡¨ pro-localization groups in Taiwan say that the communique was not
binding under international law because it was only a wartime news communique.
Yao said that he hoped the parade today would be able to tell people, at home
and abroad, that the sovereignty of Taiwan belonged to Taiwanese.
The parade will gather in front of the Wanhua Train Station in Taipei at 1:30pm,
and start out at 2:28pm, Yao said. The destination of the march is Ketagalan
Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office.
Translated by Jake Chung, Staff Writer
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