EAM Jaishankar to visit Tokyo for Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
| 2024-07-23
Quad Foreign Ministers last met in New York on September 22, 2023.
Quad Foreign Ministers will take forward discussions held during the last meeting in New York in September 2023
India is expected to host the Quad Leaders’ Summit later this year. The leaders of the Quad nations—US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi— had attended the fifth Quad Leaders' Summit in Hiroshima, Japan in May 2023.
Quad is a plurilateral framework comprising India, Australia, Japan, and the USA, with a shared commitment to upholding a free, open, and inclusive Indo-Pacific.
Announcing EAM Jaishankar’s visit, which is at the invitation of Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, on Tuesday (July 23, 2024), the Ministry of External Affairs said the Quad Ministers will take forward discussions held during the last meeting in New York in September 2023 and exchange views on developments in the Indo-Pacific region, and review progress on Quad initiatives and working groups.
According to the MEA, the Ministers would discuss regional and international issues, and guide future collaboration to achieve the shared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific region by addressing contemporary priorities of the region through delivery of public goods.
At their meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on September 22, 2023, the Quad Foreign Ministers affirmed their support for a free, open, inclusive and resilient Indo-Pacific.
"We recommit to advancing the vision Quad leaders articulated in Hiroshima on 20 May 2023: a region that is peaceful and prosperous, stable and secure, free from intimidation and coercion, and where disputes are settled in accordance with international law. We strongly support the principles of freedom, the rule of law, sovereignty and territorial integrity, and peaceful settlement of disputes; and oppose unilateral attempts to change the status quo. We seek to maintain and strengthen stability in the Indo-Pacific, where competition is managed responsibly,” the joint statement issued after their meeting said.
Since its regrouping in 2017, the Quad has announced the establishment of six working groups focusing on diverse policies and initiatives. The Tokyo meeting follows the third meeting of the Quad Policy Planners' Working Group held in New Delhi on June 24, 2024 which discussed key priorities of the Indo-Pacific region.
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