June 2021 \ World News \ INTERNATIONAL
Jaishankar offers backing for Guterres re-election

India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar ...

By Arul Louis

India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has offered India’s support to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for his re-election during a meeting in New York at which they discussed a range of issues from Covid-19 vaccine to terrorism.

In a tweet after the meeting in May, Jaishankar said that he told Guterres that India “values” his leadership and conveyed its support for his election to a second term. The global crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic featured prominently in their discussions.

Jaishankar tweeted that they emphasised the importance of finding “urgent and effective global vaccine solutions” and the critical need to ramp up the vaccine supply chain to “ensure greater production and fairer distribution.”




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