New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- External affairs minister S Jaishankar highlighted problems affecting the working of the United Nations on Friday, including decision-making that doesn't address global priorities, the organisation's response to the challenge of terrorism, and reforms in the UN being blocked though the use of the reform process itself. However, Jaishankar said that the world community "cannot abandon hope" and that the commitment to multilateralism must remain strong even in difficult circumstances. "However flawed, the UN must be supported in this time of crisis. Our faith in international cooperation must be reiterated and indeed renewed." Jaishankar, who was addressing an event to launch a postal stamp marking the 80th anniversary of the UN, said India remains committed to the world body's ideals of peace and security, international cooperation, multipolarity and UN peacekeeping operations. While lauding the work done by the UN over the decades, he said: "That said, we must also recognise that all is not well with the United Nations. Its decision-making neither reflects its membership nor addresses global priorities. Its debates have become increasingly polarised and its working visibly gridlocked. "Any meaningful reform is obstructed using the reform process itself. Now, financial constraints have emerged as an additional concern. How to sustain the UN even while seeking its re-invention is clearly a major challenge before all of us." Jaishankar listed the UN's response to terrorism among the body's shortcomings. "When a sitting Security Council member openly protects the very organisation that claims responsibility for the barbaric terror attack such as at Pahalgam, what does it do to the credibility of multilateralism?" he said in an apparent reference to China and Pakistan, currently a non-permanent member of the Security Council. On the occasion of UN Day, Jaishankar emphasised India's commitment to its ideals of peace, security, development and progress. P4...