Australian foreign minister Marise Payne (extreme left), union minister S Jaishankar (left), Australian PM Scott Morrison (centre) and Japanese foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) and US secretary of state Antony Blinken (not pictured) participate in 4th meeting of Quad foreign ministers (Image: ANI)
The meeting will focus on issues related to China’s growing threat in the Indo-Pacific and also discuss a path out of a pandemic
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The fourth edition of the Quad foreign ministers meeting began in Melbourne on Friday, according to news agency Reuters. The meeting is being attended by union minister for external affairs S Jaishankar, US secretary of state Antony Blinken, Japan foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Australian foreign minister Marise Payne.
Australian prime minister Scott Morrison was also present in the meeting. In the opening remarks, Jaishankar lauded the relations between the Quad nations. “I think Quad has worked so well because our bilateral relations have been very strong. Surely,I expect the progress in our bilateral relations to be there in Quad as well,” Jaishankar was quoted as saying by news agency ANI. Jaishankar also reflected on the first in-person summit held last year between Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian PM Scott Morrison, US president Joe Biden and former Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga and said that all foreign ministers are working to implement the vision proposed by the Quad leaders.
During the meeting, the Japanese foreign minister Hayashi said that Japanese prime minister Kishida is keen to host the second in-person meeting of Quad leaders in the first half of this year. US president Joe Biden earlier welcomed the proposal but did not specify whether he would attend or not. A report highlighted that the dates of the leaders’ summit can only be decided once Australia has held its general elections.
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