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Differences emerge over stand on Russia, Myanmar.

Quad countries -- an informal grouping of Australia, Japan, India and the United States -- on Friday condemned North Korea's "destabilising" ballistic missile launches and reaffirmed their commitment to the country's complete denuclearisation.

Noting that rules and norms based order is under pressure from authoritarian regimes, Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne on Friday said the Quad Foreign Ministers have reaffirmed their support to the protection of national sovereignty and the observance of rules and fair play.

Foreign Ministers from India, Australia, Japan and the United States discuss maritime security, pandemic recovery, and cyber security, as India diverges from its Quad counterparts on Ukraine invasion fears.

US secretary of state Antony Blinken says Russia’s actions could embolden other countries to pursue military aggression

Countries in the Quad grouping will strengthen cooperation on cyber- and counter-terrorism, including on ransomware attacks, Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said after meeting her counterparts from India, Japan and the United States.

The United States, Australia, Japan and India on Friday pledged to deepen cooperation to ensure the Indo-Pacific region was free from "coercion", a thinly-veiled swipe at China's growing economic and military expansion, as their top diplomats convened to also tackle climate change, COVID and other threats. Foreign ministers of the…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says confrontation with China is not inevitable, but the United States must stand up with its allies for a rules-based system threatened by Chinese aggression

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said the 4th Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting is an opportunity to review the progress made since a vision was laid out at the Quad Leaders' Summit in September last year.

The United States, Australia, Japan and India pledged on Friday to deepen cooperation to ensure the Indo-Pacific region was free from "coercion", a thinly veiled swipe at China's economic and military expansion.

The headline of an international page story on the Quad alliance (February 10, 2022) erroneously said: “Quad is not a security alliance, says Blinken”. It should have been U.S. State Department.The he