India to work together with other countries to address energy, food security challenges: EAM Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar participated in the 4th India-SICA Ministerial meeting in Panama City on April 25, 2023.

Energy and food security are perhaps the two most immediate global challenges that the South faces, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has said, asserting that India will work together with other countries to address these problems.

Mr. Jaishankar, who arrived in Panama from Guyana on Monday, participated in the 4th India-SICA Ministerial meeting here on Tuesday. The Central American Integration System (SICA) is an economic and political organisation of Central American countries.

In his opening remarks at the meeting, Mr. Jaishankar thanked SICA for forging a strong relationship and supporting India at various international and multilateral forums.

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"Energy and food security are perhaps the two most immediate global challenges that the South faces. But again there are the longer term trends, the priorities which will go beyond food and energy security including those of development, of growth, of trade, of investment, of employment, of poverty deduction," he said.

"I can assure you that India will be doing more, India is doing more and we would like to see that translated particularly into our particular relationships," he said.

Mr. Jaishankar said India also believes that a substantial expansion of global production of millets has the potential to address food security on a lasting basis.