Dispassionate scrutiny, reform of multilateral entities needed: Jaishankar

Jaishankar underlined that the world stands at a transformative moment and is facing a two-pronged attack - a pandemic and misinformation going viral

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said a dispassionate scrutiny and reform of all multilateral entities was needed to make them purpose-built for the present times and representative of this century.

Delivering his remarks at the virtual ministerial meeting of Alliance for Multilateralism, Jaishankar underlined that the world stood at a "transformative moment" and was facing a two-pronged attack — 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