The White House announced on Thursday that US President Joe Biden remains committed to attending the QUAD countries’ annual leadership meeting, which is planned to take place in India this year.
“We’re still committed to having a Quad leader summit this year, but there’s nothing on the calendar right now,” White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby told reporters during a press conference here.
Biden initiated the QUAD, which includes Australia, Japan, India, and the United States. In 2020, within the first 100 days of his administration, he hosted a virtual leadership summit of the QUAD countries. Since then, QUAD leaders have held annual summits on a rotating basis. India is set to host the QUAD leadership summit this year.
Kirby said now that Biden is not running for reelection, certainly, one can expect there will be opportunities on the calendar that may not have been before.
“So we’re all exploring what those opportunities can look like in terms of advancing his foreign policy agenda and national security opportunities here and around the world. But I don’t have anything on the schedule to speak to now, but I mean, stay tuned,’ he said.
“I think there’ll be some opportunities that the president is going to want to explore. Look, I mean, we’ve still got a war in Ukraine, still got a war in Gaza, still got climate change to deal with. We’ve still got a very restless Indo-Pacific. I mean, I could go on and on. There’s plenty of things for the national security team to try to continue to get done,” Kirby said in response to a question.
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