China has called on the United Nations to pay more attention to Japan's nuclear-contaminated water discharge issue and urged Japan to immediately stop its discharge into the sea.

The head of the Chinese Mission to UN at Geneva, Chen Xu said during an interactive dialogue with UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation that if the Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water is truly safe, Japan would not have to dump it into the sea.

Chen pointed out that this act seriously violated the rights to health, development and environment of people in Pacific coastal countries and even around the world.