India's foreign minister on Friday criticized global institutions' response to the COVID-19 pandemic and their ability to resolve geopolitical upheaval, saying that alternative forums have an opportunity to tackle such challenges.
Subhrahmanyam Jaishankar said the developments have disrupted global supply chains, especially in energy, food and fertilizer, and hit developing nations the hardest. His remarks opened a meeting of foreign ministers as part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a security pact dominated by Moscow and Beijing that seeks to act as a counterweight to U.S. alliances across East Asia to the Indian Ocean.
