This was a response to a letter from ARATS on February 24th which proposed that the two sides should at a suitable time restart talks, and said that ARATS was willing to be authorized by the government of the PRC to negotiate procedural matters relating to cross-straits political talks and begin arranging the restart of economic and practical issue negotiations.
這封字斟句酌的回函，主要是回復大陸海協會二月二十四日來函提議兩岸應適時恢復會談，並願意接受大陸有關方面授權，與海基會協商兩岸政治談判的程序性事宜，並隨之著手安排重開經濟性、事務性議題的商談。