New Delhi [India], December 12 (ANI): The QUAD (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) Summit which was slated to be held in India in January, is proposed “to be held later” in 2024, in keeping with sources.
The sources mentioned that revised dates are into consideration as the present ones don’t work with all of the QUAD companions.
“We are looking for revised dates as the dates currently under consideration do not work with all the Quad partners,” mentioned the sources.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in May, had introduced on the margins of the G-7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, that India would host the subsequent Quad leaders’ Summit.
The QUAD is the grouping of 4 democracies — India, Australia, the US, and Japan — that goals to make sure and help a “free, open and prosperous” Indo-Pacific area.
The discussion board traces its genesis to 2004 when the 4 international locations got here collectively to coordinate aid operations within the aftermath of the tsunami.
In 2007, the group once more met on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) sidelines. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the primary to pitch the thought for the formation of Quad in 2007.
The Quad summit, which was hosted by Sydney this 12 months in May 2024, was cancelled after US President Biden withdrew from his go to on account of ongoing debt restrict talks in Washington.
However, the leaders of the alliance, later agreed that they’d maintain their summit in Hiroshima, alongside G7 to make sure that the 4 leaders may come collectively to mark the Quad’s progress over the previous 12 months.
Biden scrapped his deliberate journey to Sydney in addition to a historic go to to Papua New Guinea.
The determination — which prompted Albanese to cancel the scheduled Quad summit — was seen as a self-inflicted blow to hopes of a extra seen US presence within the Indo-Pacific amid its competitors with China within the area.
US President 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 Quad assembly as we speak on the sidelines of the G7 summit right here. (ANI)