Kinmen Agreement

The Kinmen Agreement or Kinmen Accord (Chinese: 搜索结果; pinyin: Jīnmén Xiéyì) is an agreement between between Red Cross Society of the Republic of China and Red Cross Society of China in Kinmen, Fujian Province, Republic of China.^[1][2][3] It is the first formal agreement reached by private organizations across the Taiwan Strait.^[4]

History

Representative of the red cross organizations from both Taiwan and Mainland China held talks on 11-12 September 1990. The talk ended up with an agreement reached on concerning both sides to participate and witness the implementation of cross-strait repatriation procedures via sea routes by their respective government agencies responsible for the related matters. The agreement was signed on 12 September 1990.

Matters covered

• Principle of repatriation
• Persons to be repatriated
• Places of handover
• Repatriation procedures
• Other matters

See also

• Cross-Strait relations

References

Cross-Strait relations States  People's Republic of China  Republic of China (Taiwan) Organisations     Taiwan Affairs Office Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits Communist Party of China Mainland Affairs Council Straits Exchange Foundation Kuomintang National Unification Council People     Xi Jinping Hu Jintao Jiang Zemin Chen Yunlin Zhang Zhijun Wang Yi Wang Daohan Chen Deming Ma Ying-jeou Chen Shui-bian Lee Teng-hui Lin Join-sane Wang Yu-chi Chiang Pin-kung Lai Shin-Yuan Koo Chen-fu Events Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895) Retrocession of Taiwan (1945) February 28 Incident (1947) Chinese Civil War (1946–1950) First Taiwan Strait Crisis (1954–1955) Second Taiwan Strait Crisis (1958) PRC entry to the United Nations (1971) Third Taiwan Strait Crisis (1995–1996) Anti-Secession Law (2005) Pan-Blue visits to mainland China (2005) Cross-Strait charter (2005–2008) Sunflower Movement (2014) 2014 Wang–Zhang meetings 2015 Xi–Chu meeting 2015 Ma–Xi meeting Negotiations Kinmen Agreement (1990) Wang–Koo summit (1993) Chen–Chiang summit (2008–current) Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (2010) Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Culture Forum (2006–current) Straits Forum (2009–current) Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (2013) Cross-Strait Peace Forum (2013–current) Concepts Political status of Taiwan Legal status of Taiwan Chinese Unification One country, two systems Taiwan independence movement 1992 Consensus Three Links One-China policy Two Chinas One Country on Each Side Three Noes Six Assurances Special state-to-state relations Four Noes and One Without Zhonghua Minzu Special non-state-to-state relations Cross-Strait Economic Zone Free area of the Republic of China Chinese Taipei