PM Modi will also hold separate bilateral meetings with Biden, Kishida and Albanese
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leaders of the United States, Japan and Australia attended the second in-person meeting of Quad leaders in Tokyo today.
In his opening remarks, PM Modi said the mutual trust, and determination of the member countries is giving new energy and enthusiasm to democratic powers.
Besides Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Australia's newly-elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese are participating in the Quad summit.
PM Modi noted that despite difficult circumstances triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the member countries have increased mutual coordination in several areas like vaccine delivery, climate action, supply change resilience, disaster management and economic cooperation. "It has ensured peace, prosperity and stability in Indo-Pacific," he added.
PM Modi will also hold separate bilateral meetings with Biden, Kishida and Albanese on the sidelines of the summit.
The summit is also taking place at a time when the relations between China and the Quad member countries have become tense, with Beijing increasingly challenging democratic values and resorting to coercive trade practices.
India, the US and several other world powers have been talking about the need to ensure a free, open and thriving Indo-Pacific in the backdrop of China's rising military manoeuvring in the region.
