Hiroshima [Japan], May 20 (ANI): US President Joe Biden thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese and Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida for agreeing to take part within the third in-person Quad assembly on Saturday the sidelines of the G7 summit within the Japanese metropolis of Hiroshima.
The Quad summit will happen as we speak in Hiroshima after Biden postponed his go to to Australia’s Sydney the place it was scheduled to be held subsequent week.
The White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in a press release on Friday (native time) stated that Quad leaders agreed to carry their summit in Hiroshima to make sure that the 4 leaders might come collectively to mark the Quad’s progress over the previous yr.
“Tomorrow (Saturday) in addition to the G7, President Biden will participate in the third in-person Quad Leaders’ meeting with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio of Japan, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India,” the White House assertion stated.
“Along with sharing strategic assessments, the leaders will welcome new forms of Quad cooperation on secure digital technology, submarine cables, infrastructure capacity building, and maritime awareness,” the assertion added.
Biden believes having that dialog on Indo-Pacific is extremely necessary, the assertion additional learn.
United States National Security Advisor (NSA) Jack Sullivan, whereas addressing reporters at a press briefing in Hiroshima on Friday (native time) stated that the Hiroshima summit could be a excessive watermark for G7 and that it’s going to reveal actual unity among the many key democracies on a variety of vital points.
He stated that as we speak (Saturday), the leaders of G7 will launch a joint assertion in help of the Russia-Ukraine concern and their strategy to the People’s Republic of China.
“Yesterday, President Biden informed his counterparts that the US will support a joint effort to train Ukrainian pilots,” Sullivan stated, including, “We’re expanding our sanctions authorities to additional sectors of the Russian economy that are key to its military-industrial complex. We’re imposing new bans to prevent Russia from benefitting from our services and our actions are more tightly coordinated with the ones imposed by the EU (European Union) and the UK (United Kingdom) to ensure that we have kind of a full alignment with them.”Sullivan added that the US was within the midst of a large effort to make sure that Ukraine has what it wanted to have the ability to launch a counteroffensive this summer time.
He additionally stated that as we speak’s summit would deal with financial safety and that the G7 leaders would define a standard set of instruments to handle issues that every of the member nations faces.
“This year what the communique will reflect is a statement of key elements on which all G7 countries are aligned when it comes to dealing with the People’s Republic of China,” Sullivan stated.
“The communique will note that each country has independent and unique relationship and approach but we are united and aligned around a set of common elements and it will walk through these elements,” he added.
The G7 leaders are at the moment in Japan to attend the G7 Summit scheduled to be held in Hiroshima from May 19-21. Notably, Japan assumed the G7 Presidency in 2023.
The Summit is a world discussion board held yearly for the leaders of the G7 member states of France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada (so as of rotating presidency), and the European Union (EU). (ANI)