In a significant development, the first-ever Quad leaders meet is being planned and is expected to take place very soon. While no time schedule is known as of now, the meet will see US President Joe Biden, Australian PM Scott Morrison, Indian PM Narendra Modi, and Japan’s Yoshihide Suga.
Confirming the plans, Australian PM Scott Morrison said, “I am looking forward to that first gathering of quad leaders. It will be the first-ever gathering of quad leaders. I already had bilateral discussions with Narendra Modi and Yoshihide Suga, the PM of Japan and PM of India.”
He pointed that “we are looking forward to those discussions and follow-up face-to-face meetings as well” and such meets will become a “feature of the Indo Pacific engagement” but it will “not have a big bureaucracy, with a big secretariat. it will be 4 leaders, 4 countries working together constructively for the peace, prosperity, and stability of the Indo pacific”
The Australian PM also recalled how the…