(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-05-23 10:54

BEIJING -- A Chinese mainland Taiwan affairs official said Thursday those who used to seek after "Taiwan independence" are warmly welcome to return to the correct path of peaceful development of cross-straits relations.

"We warmly welcome those who used to have the illusion of 'Taiwan independence', those who used to advocate 'Taiwan independence' and even those who used to be engaged in such activities to return to the correct path of peaceful development of cross-straits relations," said Chen Yunlin, director of the Taiwan Work Office of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee in a speech he gave here.