The Chinese embassy in capital city Wellington and local New Zealand authorities on Friday confirmed they are in talks about moving a sewage pipe running beneath a new building site.
China was given consent to build a new embassy in 2018 but the site has remained undeveloped. The sewage pipe is 800 mm (31.5 inches) in diameter and runs across the proposed site.
A spokesperson for the embassy said China has been working with the Wellington City Council on what to do about the pipe "to create the necessary conditions for the construction of the embassy to proceed".
