The envoys said they were “seriously concerned” about regional tensions and expressed “strong opposition” to unilateral changes to the status quo by coercion.
By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated PressJapanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, second left, speaks as Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, far left, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken listen during the Quad Ministerial Meeting at the Foreign Ministry's Iikura guesthouse in Tokyo, Monday, July 29, 2024.
They noted “the militarization of disputed features, and coercive and intimidating maneuvers in the South China Sea” as examples, but carefully avoided identifying China in their joint statement. The ministers plan to launch a maritime legal dialogue to focus on the international law of the sea. They said they were determined to contribute to maintaining and developing free-and-open maritime order consistent with the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea in the Indian and the Pacific Oceans and to enhance cooperation and coordination on it.
Citing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and North Korea’s missile advancement, Kamikawa said: “The international situation is becoming increasingly uncertain.” Australia’s Wong said the Quad nations were working to achieve “a world in which disputes are managed by rules, by talking, by cooperation, not by force or by power. But most importantly we understand that this does not happen on its own. We have to make this happen.”
On Monday, Austin and Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara also held separate talks to follow up on the progress of the command upgrade plans, Japan’s sale of missiles to the U.S. and other issues around bilateral military cooperation.
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