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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that India had put its trust in multilateralism and taken the Kashmir issue to the UN..
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar participated on a panel discussion at the ongoing Raisina Dialogue in Delhi on Thursday where he highlighted the importance of ones own national interest over multilateralism, invoking the Nehru-era decision of taking the Kashmir issue to the UN that led to third party intervention turning aggression to accession...
To a question on national interest vs. multilateral interests, he said, Very literally in our first year of independence, we put our trust on multilateralism and took the Kashmir aggression issue to the UN and others made it into an accession issue..
On the same panel, January Yusuf Makamba, Minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation of Tanzania said that they dont think the current global system works for them...
"A lot of what India is trying to do, there are different names, but the idea of a multi-vector policy what in our language what we call Vishwamitra, which is like a friend of the world, you will maximise your relationships, that is the direction we are trying to take ourselves and take the world, he added...
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