At the 16th BRICS Summit in the BRICS Plus format, the External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar spoke on major issues that include the ongoing wars in the Middle East and the UN Security Council (UNSC) reform.
Stating this on Thursday, Jaishankar expressed apprehensions regarding the further addition of conflicts in the Middle East; as said, there is widespread anxiety that the conflict will spread further in the region. He spoke of the need to resolve the pressures on the parties through a stable formula, which he singled out a two-state solution to the conflict in the Middle East involving Israel and Palestine.
The foreign minister repeated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s position that this is “not the age of war” and stated that conflicts must be settled through negotiations. He emphasized the need to obey international treaties and commitments combined with international law, without exception, also placing no tolerance for terrorism at the top of his priorities.
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”The human and material costs of the augmentation are really dire,” he said as he pointed to the adverse effect of the conflict on the export business in the sea.
Speaking at the event, the Indian External Affairs Minister demanded changes to the UNSC, saying that the world should be governed more fairly. He underlined the phenomenon that the process of globalization has been constantly progressing, whereas some of the integral challenges that have concerned human society for centuries, inclusive of those within the sphere of international relations, namely, governance and conflict, have been deepening further.
He pointed that the world is now in a “steady diversification of production and consumption”, former colonies are developing at a fast pace, and new socio-economic achievements and capabilities are being seen.
Such a shift of balance of power opines Jaishankar, is evidence that the world is turning towards a true multi-polarity. He then summed up by calling for unity in the world to solve current problems when incorporating the international relations system into the twenty-first-century realities.
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