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| Baglihar power project in news | | Final three-day meeting in Washington on Nov 7 | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, OCT. 28: The stage is being set for a final thre-day meeting on the future of Baglihar hydroelectric power project curently under construction in the Jammu region. The World Bank-appointed neutral expert has invited Indian and Pakistani water experts for the meting in Washington on November 7.
The neutral expert will hear arguments from both sides to finalise verdict that he would release before the end of December. Pakistan's Ministry of Water and Power has maintained that the World Bank-appointed expert's determination will be final and binding under the terms of the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960. Pakistan has already dispatched comments on the draft of findings shared by neutral expert, Prof Raymond Lafitte, with India and Pakistan recently.
Both sides were required to file their comments on the draft of final determination by the Oct 26 deadline and both India and Pakistan had sent their respective comments well ahead of it. Lafitte had told India and Pakistan a in Paris earlier this month that he would give his final determination before the end of December 2006.
Following quiet consultations with his Prime Minister the Indian Minister for Water Resources, Prof. Saifuddin Soz, is said to have had detailed consultations with Washington-bound members of the Indian team. Pakistan, too, is sending a high-level team for the November 7 event in Washington.
Pakistani team will comprise Attorney-General, secretary water and power and representatives of the ministries of law and foreign affairs and the Pakistan Indus Commission. Both sides have pledged not to comment publicly or privately on draft final determination .
A report was officially circulated in Islamabad on Friday (Oct. 27), saying that Pakistan has "physiucally proved" its technical points throught a "trial run of a model project" and that the Indian model has "fizzled out".
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