Dispassionate scrutiny, reform of all multilateral entities needed: Jaishankar

Team Udayavani, Jun 27, 2020, 8:16 AM IST

New Delhi: Asserting that the world stands at a “transformative moment”, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said a dispassionate scrutiny and reform of all multilateral entities were needed to make them purpose-built for the current times and representative of this century.

Addressing a virtual ministerial meeting of Alliance for Multilateralism, Jaishankar said the world is facing a two-pronged attack of a pandemic and misinformation going viral.

“Today, once again, we stand at a transformative moment. A pandemic has devastated our globalised economic system; apart from taking a toll of over 400,000 lives, it has fundamentally affected the way we live, work, travel and indeed, relate to each other,” he said.

“While it is too early to say that the coronavirus has altered our way of life forever, it has reduced humanity”s instinctive comfort in the presence of others,” Jaishankar said.

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