‘Quad more strategically aligned than ever’: Deliverables from combating cancer to maritime security

The next Quad Foreign Ministers’ meeting will be hosted by the US in 2025, and the Quad Leaders’ Summit will be hosted by India in 2025. “The Quad is here to stay,” the declaration said. In 2025, the Quad Regional Ports and Transportation Conference is also likely to be held in Mumbai.

“We welcome our Commerce and Industry Ministers preparing to meet for the first time in the coming months. We also welcome the leaders of our Development Finance Institutions and Agencies deciding to meet to explore future investments by four countries in the Indo-Pacific. Altogether, our four countries are cooperating at an unprecedented pace and scale,” it said.

🟥 The declaration announced the Quad Cancer Moonshot, a “groundbreaking” partnership to save lives in the Indo-Pacific region, which will focus initially on combating cervical cancer.

🟥 India, through its $10 million commitment to the WHO’s Global Initiative on Digital Health, will offer technical assistance to interested countries in the Indo-Pacific region for the adoption and deployment of its Digital Public Infrastructure that helps in cancer screening and care, it said.

🟥 It also welcomed the commitment from the Serum Institute of India, in partnership with Gavi, which will support orders of up to 40 million HPV vaccine doses, subject to approvals, for the Indo-Pacific region.

🟥 The US Coast Guard, Japan Coast Guard, Australian Border Force, and Indian Coast Guard plan to launch a first-ever Quad-at-Sea Ship Observer Mission in 2025, to improve interoperability and advance maritime safety.

🟥 A new regional Maritime Initiative for Training in the Indo-Pacific (MAITRI) was announced to enable partners in the region to “maximize tools provided through IPMDA and other Quad partner initiatives, to monitor and secure their waters, enforce their laws, and deter unlawful behaviour.” India will host the inaugural MAITRI workshop in 2025.

🟥 The launch of a Quad Indo-Pacific Logistics Network pilot project was also announced. “This will pursue shared airlift capacity among our nations and leverage our collective logistics strengths, in order to support civilian response to natural disasters more rapidly and efficiently…,” it said.

🟥 The Quad Ports of the Future Partnership was announced, which will harness Quad’s expertise to support sustainable and resilient port infrastructure development across the Indo-Pacific.

🟥 “We will reform the UN Security Council, recognizing the urgent need to make it more representative, inclusive, transparent, efficient, effective, democratic and accountable through expansion in permanent and non-permanent categories of membership of UN Security Council. This expansion of permanent seats should include representation for Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean in a reformed Security Council,” it said.