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Indian team to visit Beijing

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An Indian team will visit Beijing later this month for talks with Chinese authorities.

The two sides will discuss the structural measures required on Parechu river in Tibet to prevent floods.

The Tibet Autonomous Region Authorities had agreed that structural measures for controlled removal of blockage leading to emptying of the lake were necessary before the advent of next flood season.

Minister of State for Water Resources Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav said the matter will be taken up with their Central government through diplomatic channels.

Chinese authorities, during a visit of an Indian technical team to Lhasa during September 12, 2004 had informed that the artificial lake created due to blockage of the river by landslide on July 8 had started receding from August 20.

Formation of the lake had threatened to flood many parts of Himachal Pradesh.

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