India earlier planned to host the Quad Summit in New Delhi along with the Republic Day celebrations
India will host the Quad Summit in New Delhi not in January but later in 2024. It is learnt that fresh dates are being worked out in line with the availability of the leaders of the US, Australia, and Japan.
 
New Delhi had earlier planned to host the Quad Summit along with the Republic Day celebrations on January 26, 2024.
 
"The Quad Summit in India is proposed to be held later in 2024. We are looking for revised dates as the dates currently under consideration do not work with all the Quad partners," said a person in the know of the latest developments.
 
The third in-person Quad Leader's Summit was held in Hiroshima, Japan on May 20, 2023. The meeting saw a thorough review of efforts to address the priorities of the Indo-Pacific region.
 
The Quad leaders - Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese - also announced new initiatives including in infrastructure and clean energy in addition to launching the Quad Investors' Network.
 
Earlier scheduled to be held in Canberra, Australia, the venue of the Quad Leaders' Summit was shifted to Hiroshima, where all the leaders are gathered for the G7 Summit being hosted by Japan. President Biden had called off his visit to Australia to attend to a mounting fiscal crisis back home.
 
The Quad Foreign Ministers also met in New Delhi in March this year. Expressing deep concern over the use of emerging and evolving technologies for terrorism, they announced the setting up of a working group on counter-terrorism.
 
The meeting, held a day after India hosted the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, was attended by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, and India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.