Emerging economies must take leadership role: Jaishankar

With the West looking inwards, India and peers must take charge, says the foreign secretary

Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar on Wednesday said India, and other emerging economies, should step up to take a leadership role in global geopolitics at a time when the western World was becoming more inward looking and turning away from its international responsibilities, including meeting the challenge of terrorism. 

Calling for democratisation of global institutions, the foreign secretary said the big dangers confronting the world can only be addressed through multilateralism and greater number of players in an increasingly multi-polar world would need agreed formats to reach common outcomes.

Speaking at the second day of the Raisina Dialogue, an international conference