Virtual summit of Quad leaders

March 4, 2022

On 3^rd March 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in a virtual summit of Quad leaders, along with U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

Highlights of the summit

The leaders reviewed the progress on Quad initiatives since the 2021 Quad Summit.
The leaders agreed on accelerating the cooperation to achieve concrete outcomes by the summit in Japan.
They discussed the developments in Ukraine, including the humanitarian implications.

Statements of PM Modi

PM Modi emphasized the need to return to a path of dialogue and diplomacy.
He reiterated the importance of adhering to the UN Charter, international law, and respect for sovereignty.
He also stressed that the Quad must remain focused on its core objective of promoting peace, stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region.
He called for concrete and practical forms of cooperation within the Quad, in areas like Humanitarian and Disaster Relief (HADR), debt sustainability, supply chain resilience, connectivity, and capacity-building.

About Quad

Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD) or QUAD is a strategic security dialogue between the United States, India, Japan, and Australia. It is considered as a response to increased Chinese economic and military power.
China issued formal diplomatic protests to QUAD members and called it “Asian NATO”.
Shared vision of Quad members is “Free and Open Indo-Pacific,” and a “rules-based maritime order in the East and South China Seas.”
Quad’s first in-person summit was held in Washington in September 2021.
Japan is scheduled to host the next in-person summit of the Quad later this year.

This virtual meeting of Quad assumes significance amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and western sanctions on Russia.

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