A day after India sought details from Beijing on its plans to divert waters of the Brahmaputra by building a dam on it in Tibet, China on Tuesday said it will adopt a “responsible” attitude taking into “full consideration” the interest of downstream countries.
“China adopts a responsible attitude towards the development of cross border water resources,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a media briefing here.
He was answering a question on concerns in India over Beijing’s plans to build a dam on Brahmaputra resulting in diversion of waters.
“We adopt a policy that protection goes together with development, and take into full consideration the interests of downstream countries,” he said.
While China has been directly assuring India for over an year that it would build run of the river dam on Brahmaputra, reports that a series of such dams could result in water erosion again raised concerns in India as some of the Chinese experts have been suggesting a number of dams which could generate a high degree of power. —PTI