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NEW DELHI: Following the motorboat of the Quad Critical Minerals Initiative past year, the overseas ministers' gathering connected Tuesday is apt to denote cardinal measures for collaboration to fortify economical information done diversification of proviso chains successful a abstracted associated statement.The apt cardinal takeaway from the gathering volition beryllium an important measurement towards countering China's dominance of captious minerals and thwarting immoderate imaginable weaponisation of its resources.Diplomats from Australia, India, Japan and the US, which is spearheading the captious minerals initiative, were engaged giving finishing touches to the associated connection connected Monday, up of the gathering that volition besides absorption connected vigor security, including the concern successful the Strait of Hormuz, on with maritime and transnational security, humanitarian assistance and exigency effect successful the Indo-Pacific.The Quad overseas ministers' gathering volition instrumentality spot astatine a clip prospects for a acme successful India of the diplomatic concern among like-minded democracies inactive look bleak. India has tried unsuccessfully to big the acme for the past 3 years, amid increasing concerns astir President Donald Trump's efforts to reshape US ties with China. However, outer affairs curate S Jaishankar said aft his bilateral gathering with counterpart Marco Rubio connected Sunday that Quad ministers would person a "good, strong" communicative to archer aft the overseas ministers' gathering connected Tuesday.
Significantly, portion the ministerial gathering is taking spot aft a spread of conscionable 11 months, practice astatine the crushed level continued with workshops and method exchanges connected issues similar counterterrorism. Indian govt past twelvemonth besides took enactment of past ambassador-designate Sergio Gor's remarks during his confirmation proceeding that Trump remained committed to a gathering of Quad leaders and to fortify the strategical grouping, a imaginable bulwark against threats to a escaped and unfastened Indo-Pacific.The associated connection issued aft the past gathering successful July 2025 was important for India arsenic it powerfully condemned cross-border coercion and explicitly committed to counterterrorism cooperation, successful the aftermath of the Pahalgam violent attack. It had condemned the onslaught successful the strongest terms, calling for the perpetrators, organisers and financiers to beryllium brought to justness without immoderate hold and urging each UN states to cooperate actively with each applicable authorities successful this regard.
Official sources said the Quad ministers volition reenforce their committedness to jointly moving against coercion successful the meeting.The gathering is besides apt to accent the value of upholding state of navigation and overflight, and unimpeded commerce accordant with the United Nations Convention connected the Law of the Sea, successful South and East China Seas.The ministers are besides expected to sermon advancement successful their stated docket for practice successful 4 areas to leverage its resources and code challenges successful the region: maritime and transnational security, economical prosperity and security, captious and emerging exertion and humanitarian assistance and exigency response.
