Quad is not a military grouping, said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday, adding it is now engaged in working together to help countries to deal with humanitarian situations in natural disasters.
The meeting will be chaired by External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar, and will see the participation of Foreign Ministers of Australia, Penny Wong and Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken asked for 'contact' with Foreign Minister Lavrov, during the second session of the G20 meeting they had 'contact', but there were no talks or full-fledged meetings, the Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold a bilateral meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on the sidelines of G20 meeting in New Delhi.
According to The Hong Kong Post, if China does not work toward repairing the relations, the episode may even endanger the meeting between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping that is being planned in Indonesia this November.
Several Republican lawmakers, on Wednesday, urged US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to hold China accountable for its human rights abuses and to tell Beijing that their provocative aggression against Taiwan and India is "unacceptable."
As United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepares to start his trip to China, activists around the world urged him to keep "Human Rights" as his top priority on the agenda.
The foreign and defence officials of the two countries agreed that China's growing power poses the "greatest strategic challenge" in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond, Japan's Kyodo News reported.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday (local time) raised concern over the surging Covid cases in China, the Taliban banning women from universities and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.