Minister of Outside Affairs Jaishankar speaks at a meeting of Foreign Ministers G20 in New York 25 September 2025. Photo: x/@drsjaishankar via nor.
The Minister of the External Affairs S. Jaishankar said on Thursday (September 25, 2025) that terrorism remains a “persistent threat” for development and stressed that the world must not prove tolerance or adaptation to terrorist activities.
The Jaishankar, who dealt with the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting, said those who act against terrorists on any queue provide “greater international community service as a whole”. When he talked about the correlation between international peace and global development, he said that recently both worsened in parallel.
“The persistent threat to development is that the permanent disruptor of peace – terrorism,” he said, adding, “It is essential that the world does not show tolerance or adaptation to terrorist activities.” As the world faces conflict, economic pressures and terrorism, the limitation of multilateralism and the UN is visible, Jaishankar said.
“The need for multilateralism has never been greater,” he said, adding that today the international situation is politically and economically volatile.
“We, as G20 members, have a special responsibility for strengthening its stability and providing a more positive direction, which is best done by dialogue and diplomacy, a firm struggle against terrorism and awarding the need for stronger energy and economic safety,” he added.
When he spoke of peace and global development, he said that ongoing conflicts, especially in Ukraine and Gaza, have shown the costs, especially the global south in terms of energy, food and fertilizer safety.
“In addition to threatening stocks and logistics, access and costs have become pressure points on nations. Double standards are clearly evidence,” he said.
Mr. Jaishankar stressed that while peace allows development, threatening development cannot facilitate peace.
He said that energy production and other essentials in the economically fragile situation do not help anyone and called to move needles to dialogue and diplomacy, “not in the opposite direction to other complications”.
In any conflict situation, there will be only a few who have the ability to involve both sides and such countries can be used by the International Community, both to achieve peace and to maintain it afterwards, he said. “So even if we are trying to deal with the complex threats of peace, the value of the encouragement of purchase from those who support such goals,” he added.
Published – 26 September 2025 06:25
