The Quad reflects a stronger sense of converging purpose in the face of regional and global challenges and symbolises the larger direction that the world is taking, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar said on Wednesday (June 1).
Delivering the KK Nayyar memorial lecture, he also described the charges that the concept of Indo-Pacific is derived from Cold War thinking as "motivated and false".
Jaishankar said the Indo-Pacific is the future and not the past.
"The charges that the Indo-Pacific derives from Cold War thinking are motivated and false. They are made by the very quarters who seek to freeze the status quo of 1945. And deny the integration that has happened in the last two decades," he said.
"Their endeavour is to constrain the choices of others and impose their own interests," the external affairs minister noted.
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