Washington: Following first-ever Quad digital summit, Indian Ambassador to the United States Taranjit Singh Sandhu emphasised that the relations between New Delhi and Washington is going “much deeper”. Justifying his assertion the Indian ambassador added, “this was very much reflected in the equation between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joe Biden in the Friday’s virtual meet.”
The digital meet attended by members of Quad, a strategic discussion board comprising India, Japan, Australia and the United States of America, has firmly set a “democratic diamond” round China.
Following the 90-minute lengthy summit, the leaders of the 4 international locations, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, jointly-penned down, robust worded opinion article in The Washington Post.
“There are a lot of challenges right now which are international in nature like-minded countries need to come together to face them and the quad was one such platform,” Sandhu stated as per ANI reviews.
While reflecting on the cooperation and comparable imaginative and prescient of the 4 democracies, Sandhu added, “The United States is bringing in technology. India has a vaccine production capability, and Japan is financing. And of course, Australia is coming in with logistics–there are three clear areas: health care and vaccine production; the second is IT and the third is climate change.”
The digital Quad summit can also be marked as US president Joe Biden’s first multilateral leaders’ assembly since taking workplace.
Political diplomatic specialists acknowledged that the United State’s transfer to suggest a digital summit be held of the 4 Quad leaders was clearly prioritised. The proposal itself got here after a number of rounds of conferences on the Foreign Minister degree.
The meet was the primary face-to-face interplay between PM Modi and Joe Biden. “Prime Minister Modi, it’s great to see you,” Biden stated whereas greeting the Indian chief as he welcomed him to talk on the summit. “India-US relationship is going much deeper, and this was very much reflected in the equation between Prime Minister Modi and President Biden,” stated Ambassador Sandhu.
The ambassador additionally recalled the PM Modi’s go to to the US in 2014 and 2016 and stated, “The equation between Prime Minister Modi and the then Vice President Biden was extremely good, not only at the lunch he (Biden) hosted in 2014, but also in the 2016 joint session of Congress, where, Vice President Biden had presided.”
“Coming back to Quad again, you have to just see the public viewing of the first five minutes, and I think you can see the general atmosphere that was very good amongst all the leaders,” the envoy added.
The Quad leaders agreed to conduct one other meet earlier than the tip of the yr. Meanwhile, New Delhi is predicted to conduct discussions over meant steps to take ahead the Quad initiative, with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visiting India.
“This visit is a reflection of the importance which the United States accords to India, and the origins of our bilateral relationship. Defense Secretary Austin is going to be the first senior Cabinet Minister visiting India and India looking forward to this,” Ambassador Sandhu concluded.
Additionally, the Quad international locations pledged to work with different international locations who share the identical objectives and make sure that COVID-19 vaccines are administered all through the area until 2022.
“Now, in this new age of interconnection and opportunity throughout the Indo-Pacific, we are again summoned to act together in support of a region in need,” the 4 leaders of Quad wrote for The Washington Post.
