United Nations: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed hope that India and Pakistan will bilaterally resolve issues over water-sharing, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the waters of Sutlej, Beas and Ravi rivers that rightfully belong to India will be stopped from going waste in Pakistan.
"We will take a look at the issue on water. Obviously, we hope it's something that the two parties can resolve themselves," Ban Ki-moon's spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters at the daily press briefing yesterday when asked about PM Modi's remarks on the Indus Waters Treaty amid escalating tensions between the two nations.
"Now, every drop of this water will be stopped and I will give that to farmers of Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. I am committed to this," he had said.
During the debate, Pakistan's Ambassador to the UN Maleeha Lodhi had appealed against use of water as instrument of coercion or war.
"We will take a look at the issue on water. Obviously, we hope it's something that the two parties can resolve themselves," Ban Ki-moon's spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters at the daily press briefing yesterday when asked about PM Modi's remarks on the Indus Waters Treaty amid escalating tensions between the two nations.
"Now, every drop of this water will be stopped and I will give that to farmers of Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. I am committed to this," he had said.
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During the debate, Pakistan's Ambassador to the UN Maleeha Lodhi had appealed against use of water as instrument of coercion or war.
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