China erects Cairo Declaration monument in Egypt's Mena House Hotel

China has erected a monument at the Mena House Hotel to commemorate the signing of the Cairo Declaration, the Chinese Embassy in Egypt said in a statement on Sunday.

The monument site is currently under renovation and will be open to the public after the work is completed, the embassy said.

The Cairo Declaration serves as a key historical and legal basis confirming that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory.

In 1943, China, the United States and the United Kingdom jointly issued the Cairo Declaration in Egypt's Mena House Hotel, solemnly declaring that Japan should be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which it had seized or occupied since the beginning of World War I in 1914, and that "all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa, and the Pescadores, shall be restored" to China.

On July 26, 1945, the Potsdam Proclamation was signed by China, the United States and the United Kingdom, and subsequently recognized by the Soviet Union. The proclamation called for carrying out the terms of the Cairo Declaration. In September of the same year, Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender, in which it promised that it would faithfully fulfill the obligations set forth in the Potsdam Proclamation.

The series of legally binding documents collectively affirmed that sovereignty over Taiwan belongs to China, which forms an integral part of the post-World War II international order.

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