External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar on Friday said that India should not give power to other countries to influence its policy changes and should be confident enough to “leverage the international system to create the best possible outcome” for itself.
“Today, when I say think through your own solutions is don’t give another country which is clearly a competitive country a veto over our policy changes. Unfortunately, in past, it has happened. We should be confident enough to leverage the international system to create the best possible outcome,” he said while participating a panel discussion at the Raisina Dialogue 2024 in the national capital.
Addressing a question on India-China bilateral relations, the External Affairs minister said that the biggest challenge for both the countries would be that instead of getting caught up in “mind games”, India should harness other factors to get better terms to arrive at an equilibrium and then maintain it.
He said that the immediate issue between India and China was the latter’s decision to make a departure from border agreements put in place in the late 1980s.
