Japan is "totally unqualified" to seek a seat as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, said on Tuesday.

中国常驻联合国代表傅聪周二表示，日本寻求成为联合国安理会常任理事国“完全没有资格”。

Speaking at the UN General Assembly's annual debate on Security Council reform, Fu noted that recently Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made a "brazen, provocative" statement on Taiwan at the Diet, claiming that a "Taiwan contingency" could be a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan. She implied that Japan may invoke the so-called right to collective self-defense to interfere militarily in the Taiwan Strait.

在联合国大会关于安理会改革的年度辩论中发言时，傅聪指出，日本首相高市早苗近日在国会就台湾问题发表了“厚颜无耻、充满挑衅”的言论，声称“台湾突发状况”可能构成日本的“生存威胁”。她暗示日本可能援引所谓集体自卫权，对台湾海峡局势进行军事干预。

"Sanae Takaichi's remarks on Taiwan are extremely erroneous and dangerous. They constitute a gross interference in China's internal affairs and a serious breach of the one-China principle and the spirit of the four political documents between China and Japan," Fu said.

傅聪表示：“高市早苗有关台湾的言论极其错误且危险，构成对我国内政的严重干涉，严重违反一个中国原则和中日四项政治文件精神。”

They are an affront to international justice, damage the post-war international order, trample on the basic norms of international relations, and represent a blatant departure from Japan's commitment to peaceful development, the Chinese envoy added.

傅聪补充道，这些行为是对国际正义的践踏，破坏战后国际秩序，践踏国际关系基本准则，公然背离日本和平发展的承诺。

"Such a country is totally unqualified to seek a permanent seat on the Security Council," the ambassador said.

傅聪表示：“这样的国家完全没有资格寻求安理会常任理事国席位。”