New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday called on the United Nations to shed its passivity and undertake long-pending structural reforms at the Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Sammelan on 'Non-Dualism for World Understanding' at Bharat Mandapam on the occasion of UN Day.

Jaishankar warned that the international community cannot remain helpless as bystander nations and populations bear the cascading economic brunt of raging wars in Ukraine and West Asia.

Emphasising that global governance structures established eight decades ago under Article 1 of the UN Charter were meant to act as a centre for harmonising international actions, the External Affairs Minister noted that current institutional gridlocks leave ...