India and China are to collaborate in monitoring melting glaciers in the Himalayas, a border region crucial to both countries' water supplies and one over which they have gone to war.
Jairam Ramesh, India's environment minister, said academic research bodies on both sides would share information. He also told the FT that New Delhi was also open to a dialogue about water resources with Beijing, saying the two countries had shared concerns.
He warned India would not allow Chinese scientists “to climb all over India's glaciers” but wanted a collaborative research programme.
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