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A FM spokesman said China is "strongly dissatisfied" with the Asian Development Bank over its approval of the Country Partnership Strategy for India (2009-2012) which included $60 million financing of the watershed development project in the "Arunachal Pradesh", an area disputed between China and India. While India reportedly hailed the ADB decision as a diplomatic victory, ADB maintained that, under the ADB charter, it must not interfere in the political affairs of any member and has no position on territorial disputes between members.