No room for coercion: Jaishankar's veiled dig at China during G20 ministers' meet

By our Special Correspondent

In a subtle dig at China, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said there must be no room for coercion, and, in a push for plurilateralism, stressed that the global agenda cannot be narrowed down to the interests of a few.

Speaking at the first G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Johannesburg, Jaishankar said that the member nations must also recognise that multilateralism itself lies deeply damaged and that the UN and its Security Council are often grid-locked.