Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday, Quartet leaders’ security summit canceledconsisting of Australia, India, USA and Japan Last-minute absence of the US presidentJoe Biden. “The meeting of the Quad leaders will not be held in Sydney next week,” Albanese said at a news conference about this summit, scheduled for next Wednesday. said.
The decision comes hours after the White House announced that Biden would return to the US on Sunday after attending the G7 summit in Japan. you need to negotiate the debt ceiling in your country. The cancellation of Biden’s trip resulted in the postponement of his meeting in the city of Australia at the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue summit with the Prime Ministers of Japan and India, Albanese, and their counterparts, Fumio Kishida and Narendra Modi, respectively (in English, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, often abbreviated as The Quartet).
Instead, the four leaders will try to meet at the summit to be held at the weekend. G7 It is in Hiroshima, Japan, where Albanians were invited by Kishida, although Australia is not a member of this bloc. Emphasizing that Biden’s cancellation decision was announced at the last moment, Albanese said, “We have not set a time at this time.” Albanese, who will also hold bilateral meetings with Biden in parallel with the summit in Japan, announced that both Modi and Kishida will go to Australia for two bilateral visits next week.
The North American president will also not be traveling to Papua New Guinea, where on Monday he will become the first president of the United States and visit that country where two strategic agreements are scheduled to be signed.
Created after the powerful tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004, the Quad was revived in 2017 in response to China’s growing influence in the region.