External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday underscored the Quad’s transformation into a “significant and substantive platform” for four major Indo-Pacific democracies while highlighting its role in upholding an open and inclusive Indo-Pacific.
In an address during the closing day of the Raisina Dialogue in the national capital, Jaishankar acknowledged the Quad’s emergence as a response to global necessities, emphasising that it has matured into a dynamic entity with creative, flexible, and nimble characteristics.
“You all know that in the last five years, Quad has become a significant and substantive platform for four large resident Indo-Pacific vibrant democracies, that are seeking to uphold an open, and inclusive Indo-Pacific,” he said speaking about the forum’s evolution at the ‘Quad Think Tank Forum’ session of the dialogue.
“Like any new mechanism or platform, the Quad too is a product of its times. It emerged from global necessities, faltered, for some time, due to a complexity of reasons and was then reincarnated with new governments and different circumstances. Shinzo Abe in Japan was, perhaps, an exception, which is a statement in itself,” Jaishankar added.
The EAM noted that the Quad, comprising Bharat, Japan, Australia, and the United States, stands as a testament to a multi-polar order, post-alliance and post-Cold War thinking, resistance against spheres of influence, democratisation of the global space, and a collaborative approach.
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