<P> Lilienthal's idea was well received by officials at the World Bank, and, subsequently, by the Indian and Pakistani governments . Eugene R. Black, then president of the World Bank, told Lilienthal that his proposal "makes good sense all round". Black wrote that the Bank was interested in the economic progress of the two countries and had been concerned that the Indus dispute could only be a serious handicap to this development . India's previous objections to third party arbitration were remedied by the Bank's insistence that it would not adjudicate the conflict but rather work as a conduit for agreement . </P> <P> Black also made a distinction between the "functional" and "political" aspects of the Indus dispute . In his correspondence with Indian and Pakistan leaders, Black asserted that the Indus dispute could most realistically be solved if the functional aspects of disagreement were negotiated apart from political considerations . He envisioned a group that tackled the question of how best to utilize the waters of the Indus Basin, leaving aside questions of historic rights or allocations . </P> <P> Black proposed a Working Party made up of Indian, Pakistani and World Bank engineers . The World Bank delegation would act as a consultative group, charged with offering suggestions and speeding dialogue . In his opening statement to the Working Party, Black spoke of why he was optimistic about the group's success: </P> <P> One aspect of Mr. Lilienthal's proposal appealed to me from the first . I mean his insistence that the Indus problem is an engineering problem and should be dealt with by engineers . One of the strengths of the engineering profession is that, all over the world, engineers speak the same language and approach problems with common standards of judgment . </P>

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