{"id":38691,"date":"2021-08-12T11:51:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T18:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38691"},"modified":"2021-08-12T15:51:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T22:51:58","slug":"u-s-australia-india-japan-consultations-the-quad-senior-officials-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38691","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Australia-India-Japan Consultations (the \u201cQuad\u201d) Senior Officials Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>08\/12\/2021 11:25 AM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>Senior officials from the United States, Australia, India, and Japan met virtually as part of regular Quad consultations to advance a free\u00a0and open\u00a0Indo-Pacific region.\u00a0\u00a0This meeting\u00a0seeks to build on and implement\u00a0the historic discussions held between President Biden, Prime Minister Morrison, Prime Minister Modi, and Prime Minister Suga during the inaugural Quad Leaders\u2019\u00a0Summit on March 12, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The four democracies\u00a0acknowledged that global security and prosperity depends on the region remaining inclusive, resilient,\u00a0and healthy.\u00a0 They\u00a0discussed the importance of sustained international cooperation to\u00a0end the\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0pandemic\u00a0in the Indo-Pacific\u00a0and\u00a0to\u00a0promote economic recovery.\u00a0\u00a0The officials\u00a0examined ways to advance\u00a0ongoing\u00a0cooperation\u00a0<wbr><\/wbr>on\u00a0numerous\u00a0topics\u00a0of mutual interest,\u00a0including\u00a0strategic challenges confronting the region,\u00a0countering disinformation,\u00a0promoting\u00a0<wbr><\/wbr>democracy and\u00a0human rights,\u00a0strengthening international\u00a0institutions\u00a0<wbr><\/wbr>including the United Nations and related organizations, and\u00a0supporting\u00a0countries vulnerable to coercive actions in the\u00a0Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0senior\u00a0officials\u00a0<wbr><\/wbr>discussed\u00a0the\u00a0importance of peace and security in the Taiwan Strait,\u00a0the\u00a0ongoing\u00a0crisis\u00a0in Burma,\u00a0and\u00a0reaffirmed the Quad\u2019s strong support for ASEAN centrality and the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific.\u00a0\u00a0They\u00a0welcomed\u00a0<wbr><\/wbr>the opportunity to continue regular consultations at the\u00a0ministerial, senior official, and working levels and to hold a second\u00a0Leaders\u2019\u00a0Summit this\u00a0fall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08\/12\/2021 11:25 AM EDT &nbsp; Office&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38692,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38691\/revisions\/38692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}