NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar delivered a stark critique of global power dynamics on Thursday, calling out double standards in international responses to energy access while urging the world to reform multilateral institutions and show zero tolerance for terrorism. He was speaking at the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting on the sidelines of the United Nationals General Assembly (UNGA).

“Apart from jeopardizing supplies and logistics, access and costs themselves became pressure points on nations. Double standards are clearly in evidence,” he said. “Our focus today is on the correlation between international peace and global development. In recent times, that is well established as both deteriorated in parallel. The costs, especially to the Global South in terms of energy,

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