‘Only Quad can ensure freedom, security in Indo-Pacific,’ says EAM S Jaishankar in Tokyo

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New Delhi:External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar strongly pitched for the Quad consisting of the US, India, Australia and Japan as the platform to ensure the Indo-Pacific remains free and open.. The minister was speaking on Monday at the Quad foreign ministers meeting in Tokyo, which will lay the groundwork ahead of the leaders summit to be hosted in India later this year, despite a series of delays...

It is only our collaboration that can ensure that the Indo-Pacific remains free, remains open, stable, secure and prosperous, Jaishankar said in his opening remarks...

Ahead of the Quad foreign ministers meet in Tokyo, foreign ministers of US and Japan held bilateral talks where they described China as the greatest strategic challenge facing the region...

In her remarks, Australia Foreign Minister Penny Wong highlighted the need for maritime cooperation and remarked that the Indo-Pacific should be a region where no country dominates and no country is dominated...

Where size or power do not determine a countrys fate, she said.. Ahead of the Quad meeting, Jaishankar held bilateral talks with his US counterpart Antony Blinken at a time whenrelations have been tensefollowing Prime Minister Narendra Modis visit to Russia...

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