According to Morrison, international travel to and from Australia will resume as states and territories approach 80 perc ent of the adult population fully vaccinated against Covid-19, reports Xinhua news agency.
President Joe Biden established a more structured alliance, the AUKUS, a week before the first-ever in-person Quad Summit in Washington DC on Sept 24.
PM Narendra Modi gifted a Gulabi Meenakari Chess Set to American Vice President Kamala Harris during his meeting in Washington DC.
Quad is a strategic dialogue between the United States, Japan, Australia and India. The dialogue was initiated in 2007 by Japan. All these four countries have common interests in the Indo-Pacific region.
Addressing a special press briefing on PM Modi's 1st day of engagements in the US, Shringla said that a number of issues involving bilateral and regional issues of interest were discussed in the meetings.
It was the first meeting between the prime ministers of India and Australia since the AUKUS (Australia, the UK and the US) security partnership was unveiled last week by US President Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Morrison.
The trilateral security alliance AUKUS is seen as an effort to counter China in the Indo-Pacific.
The United States and its international partners are working quickly to scale up vaccine manufacturing in other countries around the world so they can manufacture as well, Biden said in his virtual address to the Global Summit to End COVID-19.
The tremors in Melbourne, Australia had barely ended when the meme fest began on social media.
Seismology Research Centre Chief Scientist Adam Pascale said it was the largest onshore quake in Victoria's recorded history.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending the first in-person Quad summit to be hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington.
Then-UK Foreign Secy Dominic Raab was warned that such a deal could negatively affect relations with China and Paris, but details of the agreement were nonetheless discussed at G7 summit and all relevant AUKUS documents were classified as "top secret," according to The Telegraph.
The Australian government said it regretted France’s decision to recall its ambassador to that nation.
The security initiative, unveiled this week, appears to have brought Biden’s summer of love with Europe to an abrupt end. AUKUS, which notably excludes France and the European Union, is just the latest in a series of steps, from Afghanistan to east Asia, that have taken Europe aback.
In Beijing, the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday sharply criticised the trilateral military partnership, saying it would closely monitor the pact that will gravely undermine regional stability and aggravate the arms race and hurt international non-proliferation efforts.
Ardern welcomed the "increased engagement of UK and US" in the Pacific region as the countries announced a new security pact with Australia.
Joe Biden, during Wednesday's announcement, also maintained that the establishment of AUKUS is necessary because "we need to be able to address both the current strategic environment in the region and how it may evolve."
President Biden would host the first in-person Quad summit on September 24 in Washington which will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia and Japanese premier Yoshihide Suga.
US President Joe Biden would host the first-ever in-person Quad summit on September 24 which will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia and Japanese premier Yoshihide Suga, the White House announced on Monday. The four leaders would discuss deepening their ties and advancing practical cooperation on areas like combatting COVID-19, addressing the climate crisis and promoting a free and open Indo-Pacific, the White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.
On Monday morning, New South Wales (NSW), the country's most populous state and the current epicenter of the pandemic, reported another four new fatalities, which increased Australia's overall death toll to 1,003.
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