India joined Brazil and South Africa in expressing serious concern over the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and the need to immediately end hostilities and pursue the path of diplomacy and dialogue.
In a joint statement after the 10th IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa) Tripartite Ministerial Meeting held on the sidelines of the ongoing UNGA session, the three countries stressed that the current global system is “anchored on international law, the UN Charter of States, sovereignty and territorial integrity”.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met his Brazilian counterpart Carlos Alberto Franco Franca and South African Health Minister Joe Fahla for the IBSA dialogue. India will host the G20 Summit as well as the 6th IBSA Summit in November 2022.
The three countries condemned all forms and manifestations of terrorism “wherever and by whomever”.
They called for urgent reform of the UN Security Council’s sanctions committees to ensure their responsiveness, effectiveness and transparency, and to avoid politicization and “double standards” in any of their proceedings, including listing recommendations objectively based on evidence-based criteria. This is significant in the context of China’s repeated efforts to prevent the designation of operatives of Pakistan-based terror groups as global terrorists by the United Nations.