External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that India and Africa must strive together for “decentralized globalization” to enhance capacities and overcome challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Inauguration of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Library in the prestigious University of Nairobi,
- On 3 days visit Kenya to strengthen India’s relations with the major East African country.
- He said “Globalization is important,but it should not apply only to resources and markets while production centers remain concentrated in the hands of a few.
- He stated that Health and food security have become far more central which makes a compelling case for enhancing capacities in Africa. And when partnerships genuinely aimed at Africa’s welfare deliver more extensively on development projects. Indeed, development itself will only unfold when it is based on deeper capacities
- He tweeted “ “The memory of the Mahatma (Gandhi) underlines our strong solidarity, now expressed as practical South-South cooperation,”
South-South cooperation is technical cooperation among developing countries in the Global South. Cooperation to collaborate and share knowledge, skills, and successful initiatives in specific areas such as agricultural development, human rights, urbanization, health, climate change, etc.
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