中国外交部回应泰方关切缅甸境内采矿污染河流：毛宁称不了解具体情况，一贯要求中国企业保护环境
中国外交部发言人毛宁11月13日在例行记者会上应询表示，她不了解缅甸境内采矿活动污染流入泰国河流一事的具体情况。她说：「中国政府一贯要求企业履行社会责任，严格保护环境。我们愿同泰国等湄公河国家加强水资源和生态环境保护合作。」毛宁没有确认有中国企业涉入，也没有表示将对具体公司展开调查。
提问所指的是泰国北部的公河（Kok）、赛河（Sai）与洛河（Ruak），三条河都是自缅甸流入泰国的湄公河支流。据泰方与外媒报道，11月5日，清莱府湄赛一带的赛河水质浑浊到自来水厂滤网无法处理、饮水供应一度受扰，未处理水样的砷含量为每升0.3毫克，是泰国地表水标准的30倍。
泰方怀疑污染源在缅甸掸邦上游的采矿活动，包括稀土等矿产开采，并有环保组织指称有中国公司在当地作业。缅甸矿业官员 Myo Myint Thein 表示，缅方没有在该地区发放过采矿特许或经营许可。上述污染源说法目前仍是泰方怀疑，没有得到证实。
泰国总理阿努廷表示，泰国外交部长西哈萨克11月12日在内比都向缅甸总统敏昂莱与外长 Tin Maung Swe 提出了三条河流的污染问题，泰缅已同意设立水质联合工作组，首次会议预计在11月下旬举行，泰方还将寻求在缅甸境内上游安装监测设备。
（来源：中国外交部）
China's Foreign Ministry Responds to Thai Concerns Over Mining Pollution From Myanmar: Mao Ning Says She Is Not Aware of the Specifics and That Chinese Firms Are Always Required to Protect the Environment
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at the regular press conference on November 13, in response to a question, that she was not aware of the specific situation regarding mining activity in Myanmar polluting rivers flowing into Thailand. She said the Chinese government consistently requires enterprises to fulfil their social responsibility and strictly protect the environment, and that China is willing to strengthen cooperation with Thailand and other Mekong countries on water resources and ecological-environment protection. Mao did not confirm any Chinese company's involvement, nor say that specific companies would be investigated.
The question concerned the Kok, Sai and Ruak rivers in northern Thailand, all Mekong tributaries flowing in from Myanmar. According to Thai officials and foreign reporting, on November 5 the Sai River at Mae Sai in Chiang Rai became so muddy that filters at a water-treatment plant could not cope and drinking-water supply was disrupted; arsenic in untreated water measured 0.3 mg/L, thirty times Thailand's surface-water standard.
Thailand suspects the pollution comes from upstream mining in Myanmar's Shan State, including rare-earth and other mineral extraction, and environmental groups allege Chinese companies operate diggings there. Myanmar mining official Myo Myint Thein said no mining concessions or operating permits had been granted in that area. The pollution-source claim remains a Thai suspicion and has not been established.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow raised the pollution of the three rivers in Naypyidaw on November 12 with President Min Aung Hlaing and Foreign Minister Tin Maung Swe; Thailand and Myanmar agreed a Joint Working Group on Water Quality, with a first meeting expected in late November, and Thailand will seek permission to install monitoring equipment upstream inside Myanmar.
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China)
来源：中国外交部
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图片来源：图：泰国清莱府境内的湄公河支流公河（Kok River）（资料图）。照片 CC BY 4.0，作者 Vyacheslav Argenberg，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Kok River in Chiang Rai, Thailand, a Mekong tributary (file photo). CC BY 4.0, by Vyacheslav Argenberg, via Wikimedia Commons.
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