India, May 17 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a stark warning about the state of the global economy on Saturday, as he addressed a community event in The Hague during his visit to the Netherlands, the second leg of his five-nation tour.

"First came the coronavirus pandemic, then wars began to erupt, and now the world is facing an energy crisis. This decade is increasingly turning into a decade of disasters for the world. We can all see that if these conditions are not changed swiftly, the achievements of many past decades could be undone. A very large section of the world's population could once again be pushed into the quagmire of poverty," he said.

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