Munich: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday that the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) Leaders’ Summit was not cancelled since it was not formally scheduled. While agreeing that the summit dis not take place, Jaishankar observed that the development must not be over-interpreted. India will host the next Quad summit.
Various working groups of quad continues to function: Jaishankar
The minister pointed out that various working groups and institutional mechanisms of quad continues to function and added that cooperation between member countries remained intact. Apart from India, Australia, Japan and the United States (US) are members of Quad. “The fact that the Quad did not take place at the summit level itself, I wouldn’t overread it. So do stay tuned,” news agency ANI quoted the minister as saying at the Munich Security Conference 2026.
He added, “I wouldn’t say the Quad summit was cancelled because it was never specifically scheduled. It didn’t take place. Yes, that’s correct. But at the same time, I would point to the fact that the first meeting, which (US) Secretary (Mark) Rubio held the day he became Secretary of State, was the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting and then he did a meeting again in July in Washington, for which all of us went. “So we actually had two Quad foreign ministers meeting and I want to assure you that the other parts of the Quad, the various mechanisms, all of those are going on,” the Minister went on to add.
Two senators write to Rubio on Quad
On Friday, US Senators Tim Kaine and Pete Ricketts wrote a letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, urging the US Administration to schedule the next Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. In the letter, both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee underscored the need of the Quad partnership as far as the US was concerned.
“Convening a Quad summit before President Trump’s planned meeting with Xi Jinping in April would be a decisive demonstration of US leadership in the Indo-Pacific before the President visits Beijing. A successful Quad summit beforehand would allow President Trump to engage from a position of greater leverage,” the letter read.