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to address the General Debate
of the High-Level Segment of
the 76th Session of the Unit-
ed Nations General Assembly
(UNGA) on 25 September 2021
in New York.
Ahead of a maiden in-person
meeting called by US president
Joe Biden in Washington later this
month, India said Quad should
not be perceived as a grouping
with limited agenda as it has a
broad and substantive agenda.
Speaking to US-based aca-
demician Ashley Tellis on the For Biden, the US policy towards China is the most important part of foreign policy
Indian Ocean and its impact on
regional security, External Af- partnership called “AUKUS” to
fairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishan- deepen diplomatic, security, and
kar said, “ Rebalancing, need defence cooperation in the In-
to treat Indo-Pacific in a more do-Pacific region.
integrated manner, the political As the first initiative under
reflection of all these changes AUKUS Australia in acquiring
are expressed in Quad. Again nuclear-powered submarines for
I want to highlight Quad has the Royal Australian Navy, add-
agenda that extends to multiple ed the statement.
domains, much broader cooper- “First major initiative of
ation. And to make it in a sense AUKUS will be an 18-month ef-
to give it a sharp edge and a very fort to deliver a nuclear-powered
limited agenda partly is games- submarine fleet for Australia. We
manship of critics. But it partly will seek to determine the best
also headlines kind of attitude The tension between India and China are an important factor way forward to achieve this. We
and not a full understanding of in the emerging order intend to build these submarines
really what is happening because in Australia in close cooperation
as we see later on in the month, four corners of Indo-Pacific but Meanwhile, the House For- with the UK and the US,” said
I think Quad has an increasing are all impelled by a sense of re- eign Affairs Committee which Morrison.
agenda and a substantive agenda sponsibility. Our duty towards a is responsible for foreign pol- The development of Austra-
in multiple spheres of activities.” global cause who have a comfort icy legislation and oversight lia’s nuclear-powered subma-
Prime Minister Narendra Modi towards each other. Each one of on Thursday (local time) said rines would be a joint endeavour
would be participating in the us made an extra effort, it wasn’t America is strongest and most between the three nations, with
Leaders’ Summit of the Quad- something predestined. In fact, effective when they work togeth- a focus on interoperability, com-
rilateral Framework in Washing- recent history was a little differ- er with their friends in reference monality, and mutual benefit.
ton along with his US, Japanese ent. We all tried to overcome that to the announcement of new de- In a related development,
and Australian counterparts on approach of global responsibility fence partnership AUKUS, fo- China on Tuesday slammed the
September 24. with a more open mind. There cussing on Indo-Pacific. Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
Remarks from Indian Ex- are other efforts East Asia Sum- The House Committee also (Quad) upcoming summit on
ternal Affairs are significant as mit and ASEAN also add to this.” informed that US President Joe September 24 saying that the
it comes after China slammed Jaishankar said, “Some Biden will be hosting the first group was “closed, exclusive,
Quad and said the formation weeks ago I had spoken at some in-person Quadrilateral Security and targeted small circles...un-
of “exclusive cliques” targeting length contrasting how Europe Dialogue (Quad) leaders’ sum- popular and have no way out.”
other countries runs counter has dealt with these challenges mit comprising Australia, India, In a media briefing, when
to the trend of the times and is than Asia. The fact is that we Japan and the US. “America Chinese Foreign Ministry
“doomed to fail”. in Asia are struggling for a vari- is strongest and most effective spokesman Zhao Lijian was
When asked about frag- ety of reasons, a lot of it you are when we work together with our asked about the upcoming Quad
mentation and unification in going to see now which you are friends. In addition to #AUKUS summit, he said, “The closed, ex-
the region by the think tank already seeing these are those - Australia, UK and US, next clusive, and targeted ‘small cir-
representative, EAM Jaishan- efforts. It’s a big region. Very week @POTUS will host the cles’ against other countries go
kar emphasised on cooperation complicated region. It will have first in-person Quad leaders’ against the trend of the times and
reflected by Quad nations, he many building blocks of many summit,” tweeted House For- run counter to the aspirations of
said, “Quad as an example it is kinds and the right thing is to be eign Affairs Committee. regional countries. They are un-
an effort of cooperation, the ef- open to all of them rather than Australia, the UK and the popular and have no way out.”
fort of cooperation between four get into binary of with me against US on Wednesday announced China earlier termed Quad
countries who are located on the me kind of thing.” an enhanced trilateral security Continued on next page... >>

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