UN General Assembly
1971

131. The People's Republic of Albania and many other countries have long stressed that the restoration of the lawful rights of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations, a founder Member of the Organization and permanent member of the Security Council, is a simple and clear question. There is only one China in the world, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan is an integral part of its territory, and the Chinese people of 700 million is resolved to liberate that part. Only the Government of the People's Republic of China has aU the necessary qualifications and powers to represent the Chinese people and the whole of China in international relations and in the United Nations. The Nixon Government's present proposal is nothing more than a brutal and unprecedented intervention in the domestic affairs of a sovereign State, a flagrant violation of our Organization's Charter. On 20 August this year the Government of the People's Republic of China condemned and resolutely rejected this United States maneuver and categorically declared: