Lisbon, April 7 -- During a joint statement with President Droupadi Murmu, Portugal President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa underscored the importance of India's global role at a time when multilateral values are being tested by those who once championed them.

"This visit takes place in a challenging international moment. Multilateralism and the international system based on rules and the respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, the belief in the increase of common prosperity through free trade and the need for fighting climate change, all these principles are undergoing a crisis because they are being put into question by some of those who had been the builders of those principles and values," de Sousa said.

"Our common effort is i...