In response to a question throughout a joint press briefing along with his Australian counterpart Penny Wong right here, Jaishankar additionally expressed optimism about the way forward for the Quad, which contains the US, India, Australia, and Japan.
India has seen “steady progress” in its ties with America over the past 5 presidencies, and its “relationship with the US will only grow” no matter the result of the US election, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar mentioned on Tuesday.
In response to a question throughout a joint press briefing along with his Australian counterpart Penny Wong right here, Jaishankar additionally expressed optimism about the way forward for the Quad, which contains the US, India, Australia, and Japan.
Wong advised reporters that Australia noticed the four-nation grouping “retaining its importance regardless of the outcome of the election”. Millions of Americans headed in direction of polling stations on Tuesday to elect the forty seventh President of the US, capping one of the bitter presidential campaigns within the nation’s historical past.
Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris, 60, and Republican chief and former US president Donald Trump, 78, remained neck and neck in polls performed by varied media retailers.
The two ministers have been requested if there was a priority about Trump profitable the election and if the Quad could be affected underneath his presidency.
“We have actually seen steady progress in our relationship with the US over the last five presidencies, including an earlier Trump presidency. So, when we look at the American election, we are very confident that whatever the verdict, our relationship with the United States will only grow,” Jaishankar advised reporters.
“In terms of the Quad, I remind you that it was revived under the Trump presidency in 2017. It was then moved from the level of a permanent secretary to a minister, also during the Trump presidency,” he mentioned.
“And it’s interesting, amid Covid, when physical meetings had stopped, one of the rare physical meetings of Foreign Ministers was actually of the Quad, in Tokyo, in 2020. So I think that should tell us something about the prospect of the Quad,” he added.
In 2017, the US, Japan, India, and Australia gave form to the long-pending proposal of establishing the “Quad” or the Quadrilateral coalition to counter China’s aggressive behaviour within the Indo-Pacific area. The four-member Quad, or the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, advocates upholding a free, open, and inclusive Indo-Pacific. China claims that the grouping goals to comprise its rise.
Australian Foreign Minister Wong, in her response to the media question on Quad, mentioned, “We both see, I don’t want to speak for Jai.., but on this, I can express a very similar view. We both see great importance in the Quad, it is an arrangement, a meeting, a grouping with countries that share very similar interests in the sort of region we want,” she mentioned.
“And, having countries from different perspectives, obviously the US, India, Australia, Japan, it’s a very valuable strategic discussion,” she added.
She added that Canberra would see the grouping “retain its importance regardless of the election outcome.”
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