Jaishankar Slams Global Inaction on Terror, Flags Global South's '4F Crisis'

• by Akanksha Mishra
• 2026-10-25 16:19:00

In a pointed foreign policy critique delivered on the founding day of the United Nations, External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar called upon the apex global body to shed institutional paralysis and stop acting as a "mute spectator" to escalating international conflicts, systemic economic distress, and cross-border terrorism. Speaking at the Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Conference in New Delhi on Sunday, October 25, 2026, Jaishankar directly challenged multilateral forums to show decisive, courageous leadership rather than passive observation in an increasingly fractured world order. Highlighting the plight of developing economies facing severe structural shocks across finance, fuel, food, and fertilizer, India's foreign minister demanded urgent institutional overhaul through reformed multilateralism, while cautioning against the concentration of artificial intelligence development within corporate or geopolitical oligarchies.

Zero Tolerance on State-Sponsored Terror: Calling Out Geopolitical Selfishness

The foreign minister mounted an unsparing diplomatic assault on nations leveraging terror for political leverage:

Terrorism as the Paramount Threat: Jaishankar identified terrorism as the single most corrosive danger to global peace and stability, declaring that terror attacks can never be justified, contextualized, or excused under any ideological pretext.

Reprimanding Statecraft by Proxy: Taking aim at regimes employing militant factions as instruments of official state policy, Jaishankar stated unequivocally that the weaponization of violence across international boundaries must face absolute global condemnation.

Denouncing Strategic Self-Interest: Criticizing short-sighted diplomatic double standards, he noted that despite catastrophic historical lessons, certain influential nations continue to subordinate counter-terror resolve to narrow geopolitical gains, which he described as deeply troubling for the international community.

Confronting the Global South's '4F Crisis': Finance, Fuel, Food, and Fertilizer

Turning focus toward equitable economic survival, Jaishankar drew attention to the compounding supply-chain vulnerabilities burdening developing nations:

The Quadruple Threat (4F): Developing countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America are facing an acute "4F crisis"—crushing constraints across access to finance, energy fuel, affordable food grains, and agricultural fertilizer.

Accountability of Advanced Economies: Jaishankar asserted that developed nations bear an equal moral and economic responsibility to address these supply distortions, pointing out that speculative trade bottlenecks and closed market practices worsen the daily hardships of vulnerable citizens.

Call for Truthful Multilateral Dialogue: Rather than cosmetic declarations, the external affairs minister urged an honest international dialogue to de-risk supply chains and guarantee vital resources for struggling economies without crippling sovereign debt burdens.

Reforming Multilateralism and Democratizing Artificial Intelligence

Jaishankar framed the future of multilateral governance around institutional representation and democratic technological deployment:

Inclusion Over Institutional Exclusivity: The demand for "reformed multilateralism" has become an unavoidable imperative; outdated governance structures cannot continue to exclude dominant portions of humanity from central security decision-making.

Human-Centric and Inclusive AI: Acknowledging the transformative power of artificial intelligence, Jaishankar cautioned that this defining technological leap cannot remain monopolized by a handful of corporations or tech-dominant powers. India firmly champions an ethical, human-centric framework ensuring AI democratization for the collective benefit of all humanity.

Interlinked Global Prosperity: Closing his address, Jaishankar emphasized that sustainable progress cannot exist in isolation, warning that global stability will remain precarious as long as systemic exclusion keeps vast swathes of humankind deprived of fundamental human necessities.

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