External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar held a conversation with the Foreign Minister of Australia, Penny Wong ahead of the QUAD Foreign Ministers' meeting.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will host the Foreign Ministers from the QUAD countries on July 1 in Washington DC for the QUAD Foreign Ministers Meeting, the Principal Deputy Spokesperson for US Department of State Tommy Pigott announced on Thursday (US local time).
Newly appointed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet the foreign ministers from the QUAD member countries on Tuesday (Local Time), as per a statement by the US Department of State.
Wong stated that she held a meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya in the US ahead of Trump's inauguration.
"The Quad Foreign Ministers Meeting is expected to be in Washington, DC for the inaugural ceremony of President Trump...We will share the further details," MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in the weekly press briefing today.
In a joint statement released by the US Department of State from the Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting, "We condemn North Korea's destabilising launches using ballistic missile technology and its continued pursuit of nuclear weapons in violation of multiple UNSCRs."
At a time when the Quad Foreign Ministers held a meeting in Tokyo, the United States said that its relationship with India is not restricted just to the security bloc, but the bilateral engagement between the two nations is spread much wider across multiple domains.
Jaishankar called on Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida along with fellow Quad Foreign Ministers on the sidelines of the Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Tokyo.