US To Host QUAD Foreign Ministers Meeting On July 1, Confirms State Department

Last Updated:June 27, 2025, 07:03 IST

hruva Jaishankar from ORF Washington DC. shared insights on the expectations from the summit, highlighting challenges in current US relations with Quad partners.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (File pic/Reuters)

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will host the Foreign Ministers from the QUAD nations—Australia, India, and Japan—on July 1 in Washington, DC, for the 2025 QUAD Foreign Ministers Meeting, announced US State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott on Thursday (US local time).

Addressing the media, Pigott said, “Next week, Secretary Rubio will host foreign ministers from Australia, India, and Japan for the 2025 Quad Foreign Ministers Meeting on July 1 in Washington, D.C. The secretary’s first diplomatic engagement was with the Quad, and next week’s summit builds on that momentum to advance a free, open, and secure Indo-Pacific. This is what American leadership looks like: strength, peace, and prosperity."

Speaking to ANI, Dhruva Jaishankar from ORF Washington DC. shared insights on the expectations from the summit, highlighting challenges in current US relations with Quad partners. “US relations with its Quad partners have been complicated of late, given differences with Japan over defence spending, Australia over AUKUS, and India over Pakistan. For these reasons, even maintaining the Quad agenda going forward is difficult, despite the US concentrating the group’s focus on security, prosperity, tech, and homeland security," he noted.

This meeting also follows a recent development from June 18, where US President Donald Trump accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to attend the QUAD Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi later this year, as confirmed by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri. “For the next meeting of the Quad, PM Modi invited President Trump to India. While accepting the invitation, President Trump said that he is excited to come to India," Misri said in a video statement after a telephonic conversation on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Canada.

The Quad alliance, comprising Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, is a strategic partnership focused on ensuring an open, stable, and prosperous Indo-Pacific. Its origins trace back to the collaborative response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Earlier in January, Rubio, on his first day as Secretary of State, had hosted Quad foreign ministers, emphasizing the US commitment to strengthening economic opportunity and ensuring peace and security in the region. “On day one as Secretary of State, I hosted the Foreign Ministers of Australia, India, and Japan for an important meeting of the Quad. We are committed to strengthening economic opportunity and peace and security in the Indo-Pacific region," Rubio posted on X.

In a joint statement issued after that meeting, the Quad foreign ministers reaffirmed their commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific, where “sovereignty and territorial integrity are upheld and defended." They also strongly opposed “any unilateral actions aimed at changing the status quo through force or coercion."

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