New Delhi, June 27 -- During his address to a virtual ministerial meeting of Alliance for Multilateralism, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Friday, June 26, asserted that the world stands at a "transformative moment". The Union Minister said that a dispassionate scrutiny and reform of all multilateral entities were needed to make them purpose-built for the present times and representative of this century.

Asserting that the world is facing a two-pronged attack of a pandemic and misinformation going viral, Mr. Jaishankar said, "Today, once again, we stand at a transformative moment. A pandemic has devastated our globalised economic system; apart from taking a toll of over 400,000 lives, it has fundamentally affected the way we l...