Australia to host third in-person Quad summit

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Australia will host thethird in-person Quad summit in Sydney on 24 May.

An Overview of the News

• The Quad Summit will be attended by the leaders of the four member countries –US President Joe Biden, Japanese PM Fumio Kishida, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

• The Quad summit is a meeting between the leaders of four countries: the United States, Japan, India, and Australia.

• The Quad was first established as a strategic dialogue in 2007, but remained dormant for several years until it was revived in 2017.

• The Quad Summit, to be held in Washington DC in September 2021, was the first in-person meeting of the Quad leaders.

• The agenda of the Quad summit focused on four key areas: COVID-19 vaccine delivery, climate change, critical and emerging technologies and regional security.

• The Quad leaders announced a new initiative to boost COVID-19 vaccine production in India with a target of distributing one billion doses to the Asia-Pacific region by the end of 2022.

• On the subject of climate change, the Quad leaders pledged to work together to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

About Australia

It is a sovereign country located in the Southern Hemisphere and is geographically isolated from the rest of the world.

Capital - Canberra

Government -federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy

Emperor - Charles III

Governor-General - David Hurley

Prime Minister - Anthony Albanese