Egy aktivista csoport sürgeti az érintett nemzeteket hogy írjanak alá egy megállapodást Kínával a Brahmapuráról

2017. szeptember 25./Phayul.com/TibetPress

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By Tenzin Dharpo

DHARAMSHALA, Sept. 25: On the ‘World’s River Day’, Students for a Free Tibet yesterday flagged off an initiative from Leh in the remote Tibet-India border urging downstream nations that lies in the flow path of the Brahmaputra river to push for binding treaty with China.

The drive by the activist group comes as a part of their campaign, ‘Tibet’s River Asia’s Lifeline’ which highlights all the major rivers that originate from Tibet and sustain majority of Asian countries.

Yesterday, SFT launched the ‘Indus Calling’ initiative to focus more on Indus Water and also to learn more about the treaty signed between India and Pakistan on 16 September 1960. The treaty is considered one of the most successful water sharing treaties in the world.

“We urge all the downstream countries to push China to form a similar treaty for the Brahmaputra River (In Tibetan: Yarlung Tsangpo) or a basin organisation with India and Bangladesh,” the activist group said in a statement.

Lobsang Tsetan, Campaigns Director for the organization said, “The treaty (Indus Water Treaty) is one exemplary way to show that even though India and Pakistan do not have the best of diplomatic relations, they still found a common ground when it comes to the Indus river”.

In March last year, SFT visited Guwahati in Assam to highlight the unending torrent of hydropower and mining projects built on the Brahmaputra river by China in occupied Tibet resulting in damages from the receding water level of the rivers to the decreasing fish population in the water affecting livelihood of the fishermen in downstream areas.

Experts say that Tibet’s permafrost reserves are giving in to global warming and China’s reckless exploitation of rivers, causing irreversible danger to Tibet, which sources freshwater to nearly 2 billion people in Asia.