India, April 24 -- Multilateralism is not easy, but it is indispensable for meeting the world's greatest challenges. When a problem is global in its origins and global in its consequences, the coherent response must be global in its architecture. The climate crisis does not pause at a border checkpoint. A pathogen does not require a visa. A fragment of space debris orbits without a passport. Artificial Intelligence (AI) reshapes labour markets from Lagos to Lucknow simultaneously. These challenges cannot be governed by a single State, or even by a coalition of powerful States acting outside a universal framework. Such a universal framework, first institutionalised in San Francisco in 1945, remains the founding and enduring insight o...