President Hu Jintao has vowed to “spare no effort” to minimize the damage from a chemical spill on Russia as Beijing mulled plans to build a temporary dam to stop the slick, the AFX news agency reported. “We will take all necessary and effective measures and do our utmost to minimize the pollution and reduce the damage to the Russian side,” Hu told visiting Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev.
Hu said China will deal with the issue seriously with an attitude of “being highly responsible to the two countries and the two peoples,” the official Xinhua news agency quoted him as saying.