New Delhi, March 27 -- External affairs minister S. Jaishankar flagged the Global South's concerns about energy, food and fuel security amid disruptions to supply chains at a G7 foreign ministers' meeting in France that focused on the West Asia conflict and global governance reforms.

India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Ukraine were the partner countries invited to the meeting at Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay by France, the current chair of the G7. The situation in West Asia also figured in bilateral meetings that Jaishankar held with his counterparts from France, the US, Japan, Ukraine and other countries on the margins of the G7 meet.

Jaishankar said on social media that he specifically raised the Global South's "concerns about en...