- India, Israel, United States and United Arab Emirates (UAE) are ready to build on momentum created by “Abraham Accords” by holding the first meeting of their foreign ministers on October 18, 2021.
- The meeting is being described in some quarters as a “new Quad”.
- External affairs minister S Jaishankar,
- US secretary of state Antony Blinken from Washington
- Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid from Jerusalem
- UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan from Abu Dhabi.
- This meeting is the first to bring four countries together on a single platform.
- Meeting will also be linked with India’s efforts of building new plurilateral and multilateral partnerships which focuses on cooperation in areas including security, connectivity and energy.
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