External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar will host the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in New Delhi today. Foreign Minister of Australia Penny Wong, Foreign Minister of Japan Toshimitsu Motegi and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will participate in the meeting.
The Ministers will exchange views on advancing Quad cooperation across priority areas, review progress on ongoing Quad initiatives, and reflect on recent developments in the Indo-Pacific region and other international issues of mutual concern. In keeping with the Quad vision for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific, the Ministers will build on discussions held in Washington, D.C. on 1st July last year.
The Foreign Ministers of Australia and Japan arrived in Delhi yesterday. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had arrived for a four-day visit to India on the 23rd of this month. Akashvani reports that the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting this year comes at a time of global uncertainty and West Asia crisis.
The QUAD comprising India, the US, Australia and Japan, has emerged as a key grouping largely focusing on peace, security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.
India is hosting the meeting in its capacity as the current chair of the coalition. The QUAD nations have come together with a commitment to work as a force for global good and to support an open, free, and inclusive Indo-Pacific that is prosperous and resilient.
Quad has adopted a positive and practical agenda focusing on contemporary issues and challenges such as health security, climate change, critical and emerging technologies, and strengthening the maritime domain awareness of regional countries.
