“Interacted with Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg,” Modi said in a post on X, highlighting the engagement.
Leaders at the East Asia Summit (EAS) reaffirmed their strong commitment to multilateralism based on international law, including the Charter of the United Nations, which is the ''indispensable foundation'' of a more peaceful and prosperous world.
In an obvious reference to Pakistan, he chided the world body for its repeated failure to hold state sponsors of terrorism accountable, exposing deep flaws in its structure that are exploited by powerful nations to shield extremists.
Jaishankar said most of all the rights and expectations of developing countries in the international system, which has been so assiduously developed over many decades, are today under challenge.
He said that India is overall a nation that is deeply committed to promoting collective solutions for global good.
The first session of the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting on Thursday commenced on multilateralism, food and energy security and development cooperation.
This was Modi's third address to the General Debate at the UN, five years after his maiden speech as Prime Minister in 2014.
Sushma Swaraj said that the paradox is that globalisation seems to be leading to less, not more multilateralism.
Global leaders expressed concern that new walls of separation in the form of protectionism were being created, Naidu said.
Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi proposed four ways to strengthen cooperation among BRICS at the meeting.
