S Jaishankar on Monday said that on India's western front, the long-standing challenge of cross-border terrorism now elicits more befitting responses.
Speaking at Pandit Hriday Nath Kunzru Memorial Lectures 2024 on 'Bharat and the World' at Convention Centre, JNU, S Jaishankar said, «On the western front, the long-standing challenge of cross border terrorism now elicits more befitting responses.
»Believe me, Uri and Balakot sent their own message," he added.
While talking about the growing prominence of the G20, the EAM said that there has been political re-balancing of the global order as the G20 has taken over the G7.
“There has been discernible, even if uneven, progress in economic and political re-balancing of the global order. The G20 has taken over the G7 and many new groupings and mechanisms have come into being," he said.
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“The list of the top economies of the world has undergone change and India itself has moved up six positions in the last decade,” he added.
Balakot strike
India on Monday marked the fifth anniversary of the IAF's air assault on the terrorist base in the Pakistani town of Balakot, which not only sent shockwaves across the world, but also gave a strong message to Pakistan that India wouldn't hesitate to teach it a hard lesson for propagating terrorism in the region.
On February 26, 2019,