‘India would be happy to host the Quad summit in 2024’: PM Narendra Modi in Japan

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that India would be keen to host the next Quad in 2024. Remarks of the Quad meeting held on the sidelines of the Group of Seven Summit (G-7) meeting in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. PM Modi was addressing the leaders of the US, Australia and Japan, who along with Japan constitute the Informal Strategic Forum. The quadrilateral grouping whose primary objective is working for a free, open, prosperous and inclusive Indo-Pacific region. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “The Quad will continue to strive for global good, welfare of people, prosperity and peace.” ,

The Forum traces its origins to 2004, when four countries came together to coordinate relief operations after the tsunami. In 2007, the grouping reunited on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the first to pitch for the formation of the Quad in 2007.

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Earlier this week, a planned summit of the Quad leaders of the US, India, Australia and Japan in Sydney was canceled after US President Biden withdrew from his trip due to the ongoing debt ceiling talks in Washington. However, White agreed to hold the summit in Hiroshima, Japan on Friday (local time).

“After President Biden postponed his trip to Australia, the Quad leaders agreed that they would hold their summit in Hiroshima to ensure that the four leaders would come together to mark the Quad’s progress over the past year.” come together. So tomorrow, in addition to the G7, President Biden will participate in the third in-person Quad Leaders’ Meeting with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio of Japan, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India,” White House Press Secretary Read a statement by Karine Jean-Pierre.

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Biden canceled his planned trip to Sydney as well as a historic trip to Papua New Guinea. The decision – which prompted Albanese to cancel the scheduled Quad summit – was seen as a suicide blow to hopes of a more visible US presence in the Indo-Pacific amid its competition with China in the region.

US President Biden thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for agreeing to attend the Quad meeting to be held on the sidelines of the G7 summit here today.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement on Friday (local time) that the Quad leaders agreed to hold their summit in Hiroshima to ensure that the four leaders continue to build on the Quad’s achievements over the past year. come together to mark progress.
“Along with sharing strategic assessments, the leaders will welcome new forms of Quad cooperation on secure digital technology, submarine cables, infrastructure capacity building and maritime awareness,” the statement said.