New Delhi, May 6 -- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar highlighted the importance of leveraging human resources and the novel way in which India plays a role in this area during a speech at the Global Access to Talents from India (GATI) event in New Delhi on Tuesday.

In his remarks he noted that it has been the responsibility of the Ministry of External Affairs to bring both talent and the world together.

While speaking about development, he said, "Let us start with at our current state of development, there are two realities that stand up. One, that in the past, we have not developed and therefore not leveraged our human resources to the extent we could and should, and the other that it is not feasible for India to develop rapidly ...