While he's in Tokyo, Biden will launch a new and ambitious economic initiative for the region, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), which will be a 21st century economic arrangement
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with US President Joe Biden, Australia PN Scott Morrison and Japan PM Fumio Kishida, will participate in a Quad leaders' virtual meeting on Thursday.
India is a driving force of the Quad and an engine for regional growth, says White House, days after the Quad met in Melbourne to discuss issues such as tensions between Russia Ukraine.
The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines under the Quad initiative will be delivered in the first half of 2022, the foreign ministers of the grouping said
Modi said this decade will be shaped by talent and people-to-people linkages
The first in-person meeting of Quad leaders on September 24 will be the highlight of Prime Minister Modi's three day trip to the US
Modi has a packed agenda over the next three days: Biden hosts him at the White House for their first bilateral meeting on September 24.
On Saturday, Modi will visit New York and address the UN General Assembly (UNGA)
US President Joe Biden has said that the first virtual summit of the Quad leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, went very well and everyone seemed to like it a great deal
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday his first-ever meeting with President Joe Biden as well as the leaders of India and Japan will become an anchor of stability
The top leaders of India, the US, Japan and Australia will hold their first summit in a virtual format under the framework of the Quadrilateral coalition or Quad on March 12
The Quad is aimed at ensuring a free and open Indo-Pacific, a region that witnessed increasing Chinese military assertiveness in recent years
Quad countries work with ASEAN and through ASEAN-led architecture, particularly the East Asia Summit, to advance a stable and prosperous region, read the release
Adding further on the importance of the Quad, the statement said that Quad is a key pillar of Australia's international agenda and complements our other bilateral, regional and multilateral engagement
Malabar naval exercises confirm the grouping is at the core of its Indo-pacific strategy
India's approach to the Quadrilateral consultative forum was a statement of New Delhi's plural foreign policy arch in an evolving Indo-Pacific construct, he said