At Quad Foreign Ministers’ meet in Delhi, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says, “I want to thank Minister Jaishankar and the Indian government for hosting us here, not just in the bilateral visit over the last three days, but for hosting this important gathering here again today…As I began as Secretary of State, and as has been pointed out earlier, my first meeting as Secretary of State was the Quad, within minutes of being sworn in. I thought that demonstrated our commitment to this process. But our goal collectively over the last year has been to turn this from a forum in which we meet and talk about problems to one where we actually do something about them. I think we can report to our people, respectively, that we are beginning to do that pretty aggressively in the areas of cooperation. It is also interesting that the areas that we are working together on have become even more relevant and more important because of recent events around the world. And so today, I think we’ll make even further progress on operationalising our relationship in the areas that we can cooperate on. The most interesting thing about the Quad is not simply that we are, it is a gathering of four strategic allies in which we come together to compare notes about areas of common interest.”
“Not only is it increasingly becoming a forum by which we begin to take action, but each of these four nations represented here today bring unique capabilities that collectively we can bring to bear on some of most significant problems facing the world, whether it’s a humanitarian response, whether it’s the security of energy, whether it’s the freedom of navigation, whether it’s the need to diversify our supplies on not just energy but critical minerals and supply chains. These are areas where all four of our countries, collectively and individually, can bring tremendous assets to bear in terms of solving these problems.”