Mumbai, Feb. 17 -- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday delivered a stark assessment of the shifting global landscape, warning that the world is entering a "messy" and "unpredictable" transitional phase.

Addressing the inaugural session of the FECC three-day Global Economic Cooperation (GEC) Summit in Mumbai, the External Affairs Minister stated, "The established global order is clearly changing before our very eyes. Replacements are hard to create, and we appear to be headed for a long twilight zone. This will be messy, risky, unpredictable, perhaps even dangerous."

Highlighting the friction between the old and new systems, Jaishankar noted that the world has already witnessed these shifts across various regions.

He expla...