Quad Leaders' meeting with US President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, May 20, 2023, in Hiroshima, Japan.
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi may join his Australian and Japanese counterparts, Anthony Albanese and Fumio Kishida, as well as United States President Joe Biden for a meeting of the Quad on the sideline of the United Nations General Assembly in New York later this month.
The summit of the four-nation alliance was expected to be held in New Delhi later this year.
But with the US presidential elections scheduled on November 5, New Delhi, Canberra, Tokyo, and Washington DC recently started exploring the possibility of having the summit in New York where most of the leaders would attend the United Nations General Assembly later this month, sources told DH.
Modi discussed Quad during his recent phone calls with Biden and Albanese.
Though India, Australia, Japan, and the US had first formally launched the Quad in 2007, it had failed to take off and fizzled out very soon.
The four nations, however, re-launched the Quad in Manila in November 2017 to create a bulwark of democratic nations to counter the expansionist moves of China in the Indo-Pacific region.