Highlighting how the COVID-19 crisis has “laid bare the shortcomings of multilateral institutions”, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that the “cry for reformed multilateralism becomes stronger than ever before.”
Speaking at the Alliance for Multilateral Meeting, Jaishankar spoke on the United Nations saying that at the body “we could not even agree …. on fighting the virus, let alone coordinate responses. This reflects a larger systemic failure. Clearly, the multilateral machinery is exhausted, if not broken. “
The comments come even as India has been calling for reforms at multilateral institutions including at reformed United Nations Security Council. Four out of five members of the UNSC– Russia, US, UK and France have backed India at the high table in UN, except China.
Jaishankar highlighted how even as “supply-chains snapped and the world…