The US President Jo Biden hosted the leaders of QUAD group in White House on September 24, 2021. It was the first ever QUAD leaders summit held in person.
- The group, comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Ministers Scott Morrison of Australia and Yoshihide Suga of Japan declared new joint positions in the region, such as coordinating diplomatically in Afghanistan.
- In a veiled dig at China, they agreed that the strategically vital region would have to be “inclusive and resilient”.
- PM Modi told the Quad leaders that India would make 8 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine available for export by the end of October.
- In its joint statement, the Quad announced several new pacts to tackle the climate crisis and threat to cyber security.
- To address the climate change, the joint statement calls for reducing carbon footprints towards global net zero emissions by 2050 and to establish resilient clean energy supply chains.
