In this task, you are given a sentence in the Japanese language and your task is to convert it into the English language. In translation, keep numbers as it is and make it sentence case (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and noun).

李は続けて、「それは、台湾の人々が国との一体感を強め、自決権を擁護する強い意志を表明した新しい出発点だった」と言った。
Lee continued, "It was a new starting point for consolidating people's identification with Taiwan and declaring the Taiwanese people's strong will to defend their right of self-determination."

船は広西チュワン自治区の防城港から沈没した。
The ship sank from the Fangcheng Port in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

「フランスはノルウェーよりはるかに非宗教的な社会であり、フランスは起訴の度が過ぎていた」と聖マッテヤ・フォッシーは言った。

Matthias Fosse said that France is a far more secular society than Norway, and that France were going too far in their prosecution.