Antony Blinken says US-India partnership deepened, cooperation elevated through Quad

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He said the country has elevated cooperation with India, Japan and Australia through the Quad...

Weve elevated cooperation through the Quad with India, Japan, Australia, the US State Secretary said in his remarks at an end-of-year press availability on Wednesday (US local time)...

We launched new comprehensive strategic partnerships with Vietnam and Indonesia, a new Defense Cooperation Agreement with the Philippines, new trilateral initiatives with the Philippines and Japan, new embassies in the Solomon Islands and Tonga...

On the Israel-Hamas conflict, Blinken said the US will continue to focus intensely on its core priorities: helping Israel ensure that what happened on October 7 can never happen again, bringing the conflict to an end as quickly as possible while minimising the loss of life and the suffering of civilians, getting the remaining hostages back home to their families, preventing the conflict from spreading, and once and for all breaking the devastating cycle of violence and moving towards durable, lasting peace...

It has an obligation to do both and it has a strategic interest to do both, he said.. Blinken further said that the US is more determined than ever to ensure that out of this horrific tragedy comes a moment of possibility for Israelis, for Palestinians, for the region to live in lasting peace and lasting security; that out of this darkness comes light...

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