The current global crisis has revealed a number of deficiencies in the global governance framework, whether at the level of global institutions, or at the level of regional integration blocks. With respect to the latter, the lack of response to the crisis from the regional institutions was exacerbated by the lack of contingency measures to strengthen the impact of these anti-crisis stimuli for the regional partners of the leading heavy-weights in the global economy

The exercises are set for September 4-5, according to the source

BRICS foreign ministers to meet on Sept 4, discuss topical international issues

During the initial days of the pandemic, some expressed hope that the world would come together to fight the common enemy—like COVID-19—given its visible and immediate consequences. Instead, there was a rise of national egoisms and intensified conflicts all over the world, preventing an efficient joint response

According to Indian media, Russia plans to promote a "China-India-Russia" foreign ministers' meeting in September to coordinate deadlocked China-India relations

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov had a phone conversation with Indian Ambassador to Russia Venkatesh Varma to discuss the communications of various levels between the two countries