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Jaishankar Urges Global South Solidarity, Lists 7 Priorities for Collective Action
- •External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar called for greater solidarity among Global South countries, highlighting their disproportionate burden from global crises and underrepresentation in decision-making.
- •Speaking at the 81st UN General Assembly, Jaishankar noted the world's uncertainty due to geopolitical tensions, disrupted supply chains, and weakened multilateralism.
- •He emphasized that existing institutions reflect outdated power structures, leaving the Global South exposed to crises with limited influence.
- •Jaishankar outlined seven priorities for cooperation: ending supply chain choke points, ensuring energy and food security, promoting fair trade practices, protecting maritime commons, managing AI's impact, and increasing Global South representation in international bodies.
- •India is also seeking deeper economic engagement with Latin American and Caribbean countries, viewing CELAC as a key partner in shaping a more representative global order.
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar outlined seven priorities for the Global South: eliminating supply chain and financial choke points, ensuring energy security and fair pricing, boosting food and fertiliser security, establishing fair trade and industrialisation rights, protecting maritime commons, preventing artificial intelligence divides, and increasing representation in international decision-making bodies.
India is strengthening its partnerships with CELAC through balanced economic frameworks, a proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement with Chile, a free trade agreement with Peru, and the expansion of its preferential trade arrangement with MERCOSUR.
Jaishankar warned that developing nations are bearing the brunt of global conflicts, economic disruptions, and climate shocks while remaining underrepresented in international decision-making, noting that the Global South is in the front row of crises but the back row of decisions.
