First Quad summit meeting to take place March 12

March 09, 2021 22:38

The United States, Japan, Australia and India will hold the first meeting of their leaders on March 12 under the so-called Quad framework.

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad will hold its first summit in a virtual format.

Last month, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken joined a virtual summit of Quad foreign ministers, including External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. They offered a veiled criticism of China by pledging to strongly oppose unilateral and forceful attempts to change the status quo in the context of the East and South China Sea.

For the first time since the Quad mechanism was revived in 2017, India on February 18 used the term Quad in its official statement after the foreign ministers meeting, aligning its nomenclature to the one used by the US and Australia in the four-country grouping.

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