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'Days When Few Nations Set Agenda Are Over': Jaishankar on West's Diminishing Influence

© AP Photo / Richard DrewSubrahmanyam Jaishankar
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar - Sputnik India, 1920, 26.09.2023
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India has repeatedly demanded multilateral organizations like the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) be reformed to make them contemporary.
Indian External Affairs Minister (EAM) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Tuesday took a swipe at Western nations, stating that the days of a few nations setting the agenda for the world were over as more and more countries were asserting their role in global geopolitics.

New World Order in the Making

"The days when a few nations set the agenda and expected others to fall in line are over," he said in his address at the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.
The Indian EAM added that the emergence of a new world order was on the horizon.
"A fair, equitable and democratic order will surely emerge once we all put our minds to it. And for a start, that means ensuring that rule-makers do not subjugate rule-takers," Jaishankar asserted.

UN Should Take Inspiration From India's 'African Union' Initiative

India's top diplomat also gave the example of the African Union's inclusion in the G20 under New Delhi's presidency to urge the UN to expand the UNSC.
"It was also noteworthy that at India's initiative, the African Union as a permanent member of the G20. By doing so, we gave voice to an entire continent which has long been its due. This significant step in reform should inspire the United Nations, a much older organization, to also make the Security Council contemporary," Jaishankar stressed.

Warning Against Food and Energy Abuse

Subsequently, he warned against the abuse of food and energy for the advantage of the rich, in what could be an indirect reference to the US and the industrialized West European nations.

Jaishankar underlined that the power of markets should not be utilized to steer food and energy from the needy to the wealthy.

Besides the minister drew attention to the need to drive change, and champion fairness and multilateralism before reiterating his call to expand the membership of the UN Security Council.
Donald Blome (C), US Consul General in Jerusalem, talks to senior Palestinian officials and dignitaries during the launch of a conservation project to preserve the Solomon's Pools in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, on October 10, 2017. The 750,000 USD program will help protect this historic site damaged in recent years by erosion to support tourism and the Palestinian economy in launching a major conservation project to protect and preserve the famous Solomon's Pools archaeological site in Bethlehem.  - Sputnik India, 1920, 26.09.2023
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