New York: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to join his Australian and Japanese counterparts, Anthony Albanese and Fumio Kishida, as well as United States President Joe Biden for a meeting of the Quad on the sideline of the United Nations General Assembly in New York later this month.
The summit of the four-nation alliance was expected to be held in New Delhi later this year. But with the US presidential elections scheduled on November 5, New Delhi, Canberra, Tokyo, and Washington DC recently started exploring the possibility of having the summit in New York where most of the leaders would attend the United Nations General Assembly later this month, the Deccan Herald daily reported.
After returning from his Ukraine visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called US President Joe Biden and also the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and besides speaking on other issues also talked about Quad. During the phone calls, PM Modi reiterated the grouping’s commitment to further strengthen cooperation in Quad. Japanese PM Fumio Kishida is likely to attend the Summit. However, it is yet to be announced formally.
The last Quad Summit was held in May last year on the sidelines of the G7 Leaders Summit in Hiroshima. The Quad Summit was scheduled to be held in Sydney, Australia but a week before the event it had to be called off due to the non-availability of dates by US President Joe Biden.
India, Australia, Japan, and the US had first formally launched the Quad in 2007, which then failed to take off. The four nations, however, re-launched the Quad in Manila in November 2017 to create a bulwark of democratic nations to counter the expansionist moves of China in the Indo-Pacific region.
