External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that this a “particularly timely meeting” because the world is going through a very difficult period.
Shinzo Abe death: According to the White House, Abe played a formative role in the founding of the Quad partnership and worked tirelessly to advance a shared vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific.
"The charges that the Indo-Pacific derives from Cold War thinking are motivated and false. They are made by the very quarters who seek to freeze the status quo of 1945. And deny the integration that has happened in the last two decades," EAM said.
The key issues discussed at the Quad Tokyo summit included the overall situation in the Indo-Pacific, the crisis in Ukraine and its impact on food security, energy prices and how the Quad can navigate the pressing challenges in the region.
The Quad summit in Japan's Tokyo had several key moments, one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's photos 'leading' from the front is breaking the internet.
Media reports from Tokyo quoted Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi as telling the media that Japan had expressed “grave concerns” over the joint sorties by the Russian and Chinese military flights when the leaders of the Quad alliance consisting of the US, India, Japan and Australia held the second in-person summit on Tuesday.
PM Modi, who had bilateral sessions with Quad members in the just concluded Tokyo summit, got gifts for US President, Japanese and Australian counterparts, representing Indian art and culture in some or the other form. Take a look.
US President Joe Biden said that he was pleased to have India and the US reached an agreement for US Development Finance Corporation to collaborate in vaccine production and clean energy initiatives.
Joe Biden said Russia's war on Ukraine has triggered a humanitarian catastrophe and innocent civilians have been killed in the streets.
Quad members say the group is meant to deepen economic, diplomatic and military ties among the four countries.
The Quad nations comprise the United States, Japan, Australia, and India. Leaders of all four countries, US President Joe Biden, Australian PM Anthony Albanese, Japan PM Fumio Kishida, and Indian PM Narendra Modi were present at the Quad Leaders' summit today.
The summit comes at a time when relations between China and the Quad member countries have become tense over the last few years.
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