President Chen emphasized that if the two sides can make a concerted effort, based in good will, to create an environment engendered upon "peaceful development and freedom of choice," then no possible arrangement of future relations between the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China-or Taiwan and China-will be ruled out, so long as it has the consent of the 23 million people of Taiwan.
陳總統強調，如果兩岸間能夠本於善意，共同營造一個「和平發展、自由選擇」的環境，那麼只要兩千三百萬台灣人民同意，未來中華民國與中華人民共和國或者台灣與中國之間，將不排除發展任何形式的關係。