Quad Ministerial Meeting 2022

Quad Ministerial Meeting 2022- Relevance for UPSC Exam

• GS Paper 2: International Relations- Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.

Quad Ministerial Meeting 2022- Context

• Recently, the fourth Quad Ministerial meeting was held in Melbourne, Australia. The group of Ministers from India, Australia, Japan and the USA held a discussion at the Quad Ministerial Meeting 2022.
• For the first time, foreign ministers of Quad member countries called for justice for the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai (2008) and the Pathankot airbase attack (2016).

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Quad Ministerial Meeting 2022- Key Outcomes

• Nudging Pakistan: Joint Statement of Quad members called on all countries to ensure that territory under their control is not used to launch terror attacks and to expeditiously bring to justice the perpetrators of such attacks.
• Free and Open Indo-Pacific Region: The United States, Australia, Japan and India pledged at Quad Ministerial Meeting to deepen cooperation to ensure the Indo-Pacific region was free from “coercion”.
  • This was a veiled comment at China’s economic and military expansion.
• Quad member countries also promised to increase cooperation onCOVID-19, cyber threats and counter-terrorism.
• They also vowed to work on humanitarian relief, disaster assistance and the delivery of infrastructure to the region.
• Quad Members condemned North Korea’s “destabilising ballistic missile launches” in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

 Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD)- Key Points

• About: Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) is an informal Geo-strategic grouping between India, the USA, Japan and Australia.
  • The “Quad” Coalition though first mooted by the Japanese Prime minister in 2007, came into reality only in 2017.
• Quad Objective: Quad members have come together with a shared objective to ensure and support a “free, open and prosperous” Indo-Pacific region.
  • Quad is considered as a grouping to counter rising Chinese dominance in the Indi-Pacific reason, especially in the geo-strategic and economic domain.

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