WORLD NEWS | Quad leaders to welcome new forms of cooperation: White House ahead of Hiroshima summit today

Hiroshima [Japan]U.S. President Joe Biden thanks Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for agreeing to attend a third face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Japan on May 20 Quartet meeting. Hiroshima City.

The quadrilateral summit will be held today in Hiroshima after Biden postponed a trip to Sydney, Australia, scheduled for next week.

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White House press secretary Karin Jean-Pierre said in a statement Friday (local time) that the quartet leaders agreed to hold a summit in Hiroshima to ensure that the four leaders could come together to commemorate the quartet’s achievements over the past year. progress made in .

“Tomorrow (Saturday), in addition to the G7, President Biden will join Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the third face-to-face meeting of the quartet of leaders ,” the White House statement said.

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“In addition to sharing strategic assessments, the leaders will welcome new forms of cooperation among the four parties on secure digital technologies, undersea cables, infrastructure capacity building, and maritime awareness,” the statement added.

Biden believes that dialogue on the Indo-Pacific region is very important, the statement further read.

Speaking to reporters at a news conference in Hiroshima on Friday (local time), U.S. National Security Advisor (NSA) Jack Sullivan said the Hiroshima summit would be a culmination of the G7, which would showcase major democratic A series of key issues for genuine solidarity among nations.

He said that today (Saturday), the leaders of the Group of Seven will issue a joint statement in support of the Russia-Ukraine issue and its attitude towards the People’s Republic of China.

“Yesterday, President Biden informed his counterparts that the United States will support a joint effort to train Ukrainian pilots,” Sullivan said, adding, “We are expanding sanctions to other sectors of the Russian economy that are critical to Russia’s military industry. Crucial. Complex. We are implementing new bans to prevent Russia from benefiting from our services, and our actions are more closely coordinated with those implemented by the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) to ensure we have an integrity ally with them.”

Sullivan added that the United States is making a huge effort to ensure that Ukraine has everything it needs to launch a counteroffensive this summer.

He also said today’s summit would focus on economic security, with G7 leaders to outline a common set of tools to address the concerns facing each member state.

“This year’s communiqué will reflect a statement of key elements that all G7 countries agree to in their dealings with the People’s Republic of China,” Sullivan said.

“The communiqué will state that each country has separate and unique relationships and approaches, but we are united around a set of common elements through which it will flow,” he added.

G7 leaders are currently in Japan for the G7 summit scheduled for May 19-21 in Hiroshima. Notably, Japan assumes the G7 presidency in 2023.

The summit is an annual international forum for the leaders of the G7 members of France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada (in order of their presidency) and the European Union (EU). (Ani)

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