The foreign ministers of the Quad countries - India, US, Australia and Japan - met on the sidelines of the UNGA meeting in Bangkok.
The Ministers met to discuss cooperation on counter-terrorism, mentoring, assistance in disaster relief, airtime security, cooperation, development, finance and cybersecurity efforts etc.
QUAD
The Quadrilateral security dialogue or Quad was first mooted by the Japanese Prime Minister in 2007.
In November 2017, India, the US, Australia and Japan gave shape to the long-pending "Quad" Coalition
It aims to develop a new strategy to keep the critical sea routes in the Indo-Pacific free of any influence (especially China).
Members of the Quad, barring Australia, are currently engaged in the annual Malabar exercises – military exercises that started between India and the U.S. in 1994 and became trilateral (with Japan) in 2015.