On this day, 32 years ago, November 5, 1993 (September 22, 1993 in the lunar calendar), the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) and the Straits Exchange Foundation reached a consensus that the hijackers should be repatriated. On November 5, 1993, the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait and the Straits Exchange Foundation reached an agreement when discussing the issue of repatriation of hijackers in Xiamen: "hijackers are criminal offenders" and "When an aircraft of one party is hijacked to the other party, the other party should transfer the criminal to the party belonging to the civil aviation aircraft for handling." This is the first time that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait have jointly negotiated the repatriation of hijackers. Sun Yafu, deputy secretary-general of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, said in an interview with mainland and Hong Kong and Taiwan reporters after the talks that in recent years, there have been several incidents in which mainland civil aircraft were hijacked to Taiwan, and more such incidents occurred in 1993. Hijacking is a serious criminal offence that seriously endangers passenger safety and civil aviation operations. In fact, it also affects cross-strait relations and causes great harm. This issue should be well resolved. According to reports, during the negotiations, both the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait and the Straits Exchange Foundation believed that hijacking a civil aircraft was a serious criminal offence and should be repatriated in principle. The crime of hijacking seriously endangers public security, and its nature should be determined based on criminal behavior rather than criminal purpose. The Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait and the Strait Exchange Foundation held substantive discussions on the issue of repatriation of hijackers. Regarding the issue of investigation and punishment, ARATS put forward a principled opinion, that is, when an aircraft of one party is hijacked to another party, the other party should transfer the offender to the party belonging to the civil aircraft for handling. The Strait Exchange Foundation believes that this opinion of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait is very constructive. ARATS is pleased with the consensus reached by the SEF on this issue. Regarding the issue of punishment, ARATS pointed out that the 29th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress in December 1992 had made specific provisions on the sentencing and punishment of hijackers. After the hijackers are repatriated to the mainland, we will punish them based on facts and the law. ARATS believes that at present, the only document that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait can rely on is the "Kinmen Agreement", which stipulates that criminals and criminal suspects can be repatriated. Until there is a new agreement, repatriation should be carried out in accordance with the agreement, or specific arrangements should be made. Sun Yafu said that some substantive issues have been clarified. Of course, there are still some issues that cannot be solved for the time being, and we advocate that we can discuss them again. Xu Hui, deputy secretary-general of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation, said,"We are welcome to talk about such issues at any time. This is an urgent issue."