Jaishankar's shared agenda Trade, security and climate

Oct 4

ANI records the closing portion of S. Jaishankar's New Delhi opening speech. He proposes an agenda for emerging and middle powers, asking whether countries other than the largest can pool resources and support one another's diplomacy on conflicts and tensions. For investment and trade, he recalls India–EU negotiations coming to a head this year after what he describes as almost 25 years, attributing the breakthrough to a shared recognition that changing world conditions required deeper economic engagement and removal of barriers. He advocates supply-chain resilience, noting that countries need not be the largest to excel in chips or semiconductor-production machinery; diversified production of active pharmaceutical ingredients and medicines for health security; and movement of talent and skills to bridge the gap between demand and demographics and sustain advanced manufacturing. He also identifies connectivity, climate action and sustainability, arguing that much of the world experiences climate change and that cooperation has become more urgent. He describes changing defence production, smarter systems and new producers, briefly identifies transformations in space, and concludes that a substantial common agenda could give the gathering stronger purpose and clearer direction. These are proposed cooperation priorities and his assessments, with no new agreement, implementation programme or completed tariff removal established in the excerpt.

In the closing portion of his October 4 opening speech in New Delhi, Jaishankar proposes a common agenda for emerging and middle powers: pooling diplomatic resources for peace and security, deeper trade and investment, resilient supply chains, diversified pharmaceutical production, movement of talent and skills, connectivity, climate action, defence and space cooperation. He says climate cooperation has become more urgent and describes changing defence producers and technologies. He argues that this shared agenda could give the gathering clearer purpose. This is an attributed public cooperation proposal, not a multilateral agreement or adopted implementation programme.