`China not to do anything against interests of other nations`

Beijing, Nov 5 (PTI) Amid reports that it was building a
dam in Tibet on Brahmaputra river, China Thursday assured
India that it will not do anything to damage other nations'
interests.
"China is a responsible country and will not do anything
to damage the interests of others," Foreign Ministry spokesman
Ma Zhaoxu said in a bi-weekly press briefing when asked to
comment on reports that China was building a dam on Yarlung
Zangbu River or Brahmaputra.
Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao had said Wednesday that
India had repeatedly raised with China the issue of
construction of a dam by it on Brahmaputra river and Beijing
had consistently denied any such engagement.
"What I want to say is that this matter has been taken up
not just once but on a number of occasions with China and
China has consistently denied that it is engaged in any such
construction activity on the Brahmaputra," Rao said in
New Delhi.
She was replying to a question on the reported
construction at the Zangmu site on the Chinese side of the
Brahmaputra river, which was confirmed by the National Remote
Sensing Agency (NRSA) as per media reports.
The issue had also figured in the meeting between Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao
on the sidelines of the ASEAN-India and East Asia Summit in
Thailand last month. PTI