Innovative, participative diplomacy can help solving conflicts: Jaishankar
participative diplomacy, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said that the general sort of the needle is moving more towards the reality of a negotiation than the continuation of the Russia-Ukraine war. Jaishankar also highlighted the impact of the conflict situations in the Gulf and the Mediterranean region on countries all over, including India, in terms of cost escalation for oil, fertilisers and shipping etc.
Visiting Doha to participate in the Doha Forum at the invitation of Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of State of Qatar Mohammed bin Abdulrahman and was addressing a panel along with him and Norway's Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide.
Answering a question about the situation in the Gulf region and the latest in Syria, the External Affairs Minister highlighted how there is a widening of conflict and gave examples of Israel-Iran firing at each other; said how the situation in Red Sea is impacting shipping for Asia, and then, referred to a previous session of journalists who said even when the job is tough, journalists need to do it.
«I think similarly, diplomats of the world have to tell themselves, it's a messy world. It's terrible. There are conflicts, but therefore there's all the more reason for diplomats of the world to step forward,» he asserted.
He also said the era of the 60s and the 70s when the (UN) Security Council or a few Western powers managed (such conflicts) is «behind us» and said, all the countries need to step forward.
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