Jaishankar's shared agenda Trade, security and climate

Jan 27

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.

Jaishankar later recalls the 2026 culmination of India–EU trade negotiations, describing almost 25 years of talks. He attributes the breakthrough to both sides recognizing that a changing world required intensified economic engagement and removal of barriers. His recollection explains the significance and rationale of the negotiation outcome; the passage establishes no signature, ratification, entry into force or completed tariff changes.