Jaishankar warns against energy instability at G20 ministers meet

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, addressing the Second G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in New York on Thursday, underlined the need for global unity against terrorism and called for urgent reforms in multilateral institutions, including the United Nations.

“A persistent threat to development is that perennial disruptor of peace – terrorism. It is imperative that the world display neither tolerance nor accommodation to terrorist activities. Given the extensive networking amongst terrorists, those who act against them on any front actually render a larger service to the international community as a whole,” Jaishankar said without naming Pakistan.

Highlighting the multiple crises confronting the global order, the minister pointed to the failures of existing multilateral frameworks. “As we confront conflict, economic pressures and terrorism, the limitations of multilateralism and the United Nations in particular are visible. The need for reforming multilateralism has never been greater,” he noted.