According to sources on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden will not be visiting India for the Republic Day parade in January 2024, and the Quad summit—which was scheduled to take place at that time will now take place later in 2024. A source stated, "As the dates currently under consideration do not work with all the Quad partners, we are looking for revised dates (for Quad)."
In keeping with its intentions to host the Quad leaders' meeting in January of next year, India extended an invitation to President Biden to join in the Republic Day festivities.
on September 20, US Ambassador Eric Garcetti confirmed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had extended an invitation to President Joe Biden to attend the Republic Day festivities.With just over six weeks till Republic Day celebrations, the move will also place the Indian side in an awkward position where they would have to choose a leader to be the principal guest.
On the fringes of the G-7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, in May, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that India would host the next Quad leaders' summit.The four countries that make up the QUAD are the US, Japan, Australia, and India. Their goal is to guarantee and promote a "free, open, and prosperous" Indo-Pacific area.The four nations joined forces to plan relief efforts following the tsunami in 2004, which is when the forum first got started.
The group reconvened on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2007. In 2007, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made the initial proposal for Quad's establishment.The US President Biden canceled his visit to Sydney, which was scheduled to host the Quad summit in May 2024, citing continuing debt limit negotiations in Washington as the reason.
To ensure that the four presidents could get together to celebrate the Quad's accomplishments during the previous year, the alliance's leaders eventually decided to conduct their summit in Hiroshima alongside the G7.The move was viewed as a self-inflicted setback to expectations of a more noticeable US presence in the Indo-Pacific amid its struggle with China in the region, and it led Albanese to postpone the planned Quad meeting.On the fringes of the G7 summit today, US President Biden expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan for their willingness to take part in the Quad meeting.
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