20 October 2011

News Story: Taiwan urges China to remove missiles

TAIPEI (AFP): Taiwan said China would have to remove 1,600 missiles targeting the island as a precondition for signing a peace treaty putting a formal end to a civil war fought more than 60 years ago.

Lai Shin-yuan, Taiwan's top China policy maker, made the call on Tuesday, a day after the island's president Ma Ying-jeou said the treaty might be a possibility within the coming decade.

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