New Delhi: India should become a stabilising power in the world for it is “not India’s way to be a disruptionist power internationally,” said External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar at the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi on January 15.

“There are already enough forces of disruption in the world. Somebody needs to make up a bit,” he said.

The event supported by the external affairs ministry, focuses this year on geopolitics and geo-economics.

“It is also not the India way to be self-centered, to be mercantilist. Therefore, it’s important to be global, law abiding, consultative,” Jaishankar said adding that the country needs to get over its past image.

“There was a time when we spoke more than what we did; it is changing now,” Jaishankar added.

More than 100 countries are taking part in the fifth edition of the event. There are more than 700 international participants, including Iran’s foreign minister Javad Zarif and Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov.

The MEA said in a statement that the dialogue is India’s “contribution to global efforts to discover solutions, identify opportunities and provide stability to a century that has witnessed an eventful two decades”.