Leaders of the Quad group of countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, met at their sixth summit-level meeting at Archmere Academy in Delaware.
Source: The Hindu
Key highlights of the Quad Summit:
Quad Wilmington Declaration:
It has been adopted to take the Quad agenda forward.
Quad Cancer Moonshot
It aims to reduce the burden of cancer in the Indo-Pacific region.
Building on their COVID-19 collaboration, it leverages collective investments, scientific expertise, and contributions from private and non-profit sectors.
The initiative will initially target cervical cancer, a preventable disease with a high death toll in the region, while also setting the stage to address other forms of cancer in the future.
India will commit $10 million towards screening for the disease.
Vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India and Gavi will provide up to 40 million vaccines for the region, subject to approvals.
Maritime Initiative For Training In Indo-Pacific
It has been announced to help regional partners effectively utilize tools from the Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) and other Quad initiatives.
IPMDA is a cooperative initiative that aims to improve maritime awareness and response capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region. It was announced in May 2022 by the Quad group.
It aims to enhance monitoring, security, law enforcement, and deter illegal activities in regional waters.
India will host the inaugural MAITRI workshop in 2025.
The Quad will also launch a maritime legal dialogue to support a rules-based maritime order in the Indo-Pacific, while introducing new technology and data to enhance IPMDA capabilities over the next year.
Quad-at-Sea Ship Observer Mission to be held in 2025:
It has been announced to enhance maritime safety and interoperability.
Quad Indo-Pacific Logistics Network:
The leaders launched a pilot project to share airlift capacity and leverage their collective logistics strengths.
This will enable faster and more efficient civilian responses to natural disasters across the Indo-Pacific region.
Quad Ports of the Future Partnership:
It will harness the Quad’s collective expertise to support sustainable and resilient port infrastructure development across the Indo-Pacific.
Semiconductor Supply Chains Contingency Network Memorandum of Cooperation:
It aims to enhance the resilience of Quad’s semiconductor supply chains.
Other announcements:
Collective Quad effort to boost energy efficiency, including deployment and manufacturing of high-efficiency affordable cooling systems in the Indo-Pacific region.
India’s establishment of a space-based web portal for Mauritius, to support the concept of open science for space-based monitoring of extreme weather events and climate impact.
A new sub-category under the Quad STEM Fellowship, announced by India, for students of the Indo-Pacific region to pursue a 4-year bachelor’s level engineering programme at a Government of India funded technical institute.
Quad Leaders’ Summit 2025 to be held in India
The Leaders welcomed the next hosting of the Quad Leaders’ Summit by India in 2025.
Quad:
The grouping of four democracies i.e. India, Australia, US and Japan, is known as the quadrilateral security dialogue or quad.
The aim of this grouping is to ensure a free and open international order based on the rule of law in the Indo- Pacific.
The group’s primary objectives include
maritime security,
combating the Covid-19 crisis, especially vis-à-vis vaccine diplomacy,
addressing the risks of climate change,
creating an ecosystem for investment in the region and
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