Canberra [Australia], May 25 (ANI): Foreign Minister of Australia, Penny Wong, introduced that she’s going to go to India to take part within the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and maintain the Australia-India Foreign Ministers’ Framework Dialogue.
Wong stated, ‘In these unsure instances, the Quad is a crucial partnership – 4 nations working collectively to form a peaceable, secure and affluent future for the Indo-Pacific area. Together, Australia, India, Japan and the United States are delivering concrete outcomes on shared pursuits together with maritime safety, crucial minerals provide, infrastructure growth and catastrophe aid.’
She added, ‘While in India I’ll maintain the seventeenth Australia-India Foreign Ministers’ Framework Dialogue with my counterpart, Minister for External Affairs Dr S. Jaishankar. Australia and India’s partnership has by no means been extra consequential.’
Wong’s Office additional stated that Australia and India are deepening cooperation.
‘As Comprehensive Strategic Partners, Australia and India are deepening cooperation in commerce and funding, defence and maritime safety, local weather and vitality transition, strategic know-how, and schooling and abilities; with a permanent social connection on the coronary heart of our partnership. The Albanese Government will proceed to strengthen Australia’s relationships and work even more durable in new and current coalitions just like the Quad as we hold constructing Australia’s future in an ever much less secure world,’ it stated.
At the invitation of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, the Foreign Minister of Australia, Ms. Penny Wong; the Foreign Minister of Japan, Toshimitsu Motegi; and the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, will undertake an official go to to New Delhi to take part within the Quad Foreign Ministers’ assembly on 26 May 2026.
In holding with the Quad imaginative and prescient for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific, the Ministers will construct on discussions held in Washington, DC on 1 July 2025. They will alternate views on advancing Quad cooperation throughout precedence areas, evaluation progress on ongoing Quad initiatives, and replicate on latest developments within the Indo-Pacific area and different worldwide problems with mutual concern. (ANI)