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- 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.
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