Beijing, September 23 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Sept. 21 clarified the stand of the government opposing the U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.

The U.S. administration announced a new arms package worth 5.852 billion U.S. dollars to Taiwan despite strong opposition and protest of China.

In this connection he said it would cause multiple damage to the state security and reunification cause of China as it gravely violates the commitments in the three China-U.S. joint communiques and the Joint Communique of Aug. 17, 1982 and seriously interferes in the internal affairs of China.

"There is only one China in the world, and Taiwan is an integral part of Chinese territory," he said, adding that China is resolutely opposed to arms sales to Taiwan by any country and such stand is consistent.

The Chinese government and people can never accept such behavior of the U.S., the spokesman noted, urging the U.S. to cancel the plan.

Meanwhile, the Chinese foreign minister and a spokesman for the Chinese Defense Ministry and a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council clarified the same stand and demanded the U.S. retract at once its wrong decision to sell arms to Taiwan.

A vice foreign minister of China summoned the U.S. ambassador to China and the deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Ministry of National Defence the acting military attache of the U.S. embassy in Beijing and lodged a strong protest with the U.S. against this arms sale.