QUAD foreign ministers meet (File Pic)
New Delhi: India will hold QUAD foreign ministers meet later this year, Ministry of external affairs spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said on Thursday.
The QUAD consists of India, the US, Australia and Japan, the spokesperson said, “We look forward to holding QUAD meet later this year and details are being worked out.”
The Quad foreign ministers met last year on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, which was the first such meet of the grouping.
Earlier this month, US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun said that a Quad ministerial meet is being planned in Delhi.
Speaking at US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), Mr Biegun said, “There’s going to be a meeting of the Quad, a ministerial meeting with the QUAD in Delhi – that’s the intention anyway – in person.”
“Details are still being worked out”, he said.
