‘Aggressively & Impressively’: QUAD Unveils Bold Action Plan For Maritime Security Amid China Threat

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Good morning and uh it's great pleasure to welcome you all to New Delhi for this meeting of four meeting for the third time in less than 18 months.

[00:00:15]We will be discussing and deciding our shared activities.

[00:00:20]Obviously that will take into account the many challenges and opportunities in the world.

[00:00:27]uh our focus will clearly respect at the global level. Uh we have to address issues like supply chain connectivity programs, manufacturing and resource concentrations and gaps.

[00:00:49]Each one offers a new >> photo down more stronger growth and realizing the promise of the Indo-Pacific has initi promoting economic choices and fostering a deeper collaboration with us.

[00:01:19]and that is best done by trusted and partners.

[00:01:26]Over the past several months, our officials have advanced collaboration across key priorities maritime security, political technologies, economic resilience and HABR.

[00:01:40]We have seen encouraging progress on many initiatives.

[00:01:45]As maritime democracies, liberalistic societies and market economies, we share a responsibility towards a free and open.

[00:01:56]The region must remain a driver of global growth and solution.

[00:02:01]We will be under that today through our deedations which I confident will be useful and I thank you all for being here and wonderful starting.

[00:02:19]Thank you very much.

[00:02:23]us here in Delhi bring us together in the world actually leadership very first meeting after we appreciate it and has been there from the very beginning so it's one of the original Thank you. Thank you for your leadership as well. I wanted to start by reflecting on the points that Minister Judge Sher made to have a lot of in Washington and about doing what we have together to ensure that the Indo Pacific and the countries within it have the freedom of choice on their security certainly sovereign interests, the freedom of choice on their development.

[00:03:24]and on the future of the rectum share and that is central to how Australia approaches our engagement in the block.

[00:03:33]Uh it's why this partnership and this meeting matters so much to Australia. Uh and it matters to us, it matters to the region and therefore matters to the world. I think we all understand we we today pressure we have our own histories our own interests and we will share a vision for a region that is free and home. A region that is peaceful, stable and prosperous and we each bring our unique perspective, experiences and strengths together as we work to achieve such a future. Uh as the club, we deliver concrete results. We responded to natural disasters. Uh we mobilized communities affected by things like the earthquake in Ven or the landslide.

[00:04:39]We also cooperated on critical infrastructure under sea. Uh we cooperate on maritime security and cooperated uh on critical.

[00:04:50]We all want the quad to be as strong and as effective as we can make it better focus on and we are determined to continue its momentum.

[00:05:03]This is the future of our region. Please support this region and today we continue to program now Japan.

[00:05:33]Okay.

[00:06:59]Thank you so much.

[00:07:03]Thank you.

[00:07:08]Thank you. And first I want to thank Shankar and the Indian government for hosting us. Not just me personally but over the last three days not just I want to thank Minister J Shankar and the Indian government for hosting us here not just in the bilateral visit over the last three days but for hosting this important gathering here again today. I want to thank as well for joining us willingness to come over here and do this and um and uh and it becomes an important time. It was our goal as I began Secretary of State and as an appointed I know that my first meeting as a secretary of state was to literally within minutes of being sworn in and um and I thought that demonstrated our commitment to this process. But our goal collectively over the last year has been to turn this from a forum in which we meet and talk about problems to one where we actually do something about it.

[00:08:00]And I think we can report to to our people's respectively that uh we are beginning to do that uh pretty aggressively and pretty impressively on the areas of cooperation. And it's also interesting that on the areas that we are working together on have become even more relevant and more important because the recent events around the world and so today I think we'll make even further progress on operationalizing our relationship on the areas that we can cooperate on. And by the way, the most interesting thing about the quad is not simply that we are it is a gathering of four strategic allies in which we come together to sort of uh compare notes about areas of of common interest but also and it's not only is it increasingly becoming a form which we need to take action. But each of these four nations represented here today bring unique capabilities that collectively we can bring to bear on some of the most significant problems facing the world. Whether it's a humanitarian response, whether it's the security of energy, whether it's the freedom of navigation, whether it's the need to diversify our supplies of not just energy, but critical minerals and supply chains. These are areas where all four of our countries collectively and individually can bring tremendous assets to bear in terms of solving these problems. So, thank you for hosting us and I know we're going to continue to not just meet but take action because a lot of work happens after our meetings.

[00:09:19]Our staffs go back, they coordinate year round constantly. We have people at the State Department that are specifically assigned to this relationship and to this forum and to turning it into action. And today, we'll just continue to build upon the momentum that already exists. And hopefully begin to increasingly show the people of our respective countries the momentum that's behind uh this this strategic this gathering of strategic allies. So, thank you.

[00:09:46]Thank you very much.