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.
India, US, UAE, and Israel form a new QUAD
The meeting is being described in some quarters as a “new Quad”. It was joined by:
External affairs minister S Jaishankar,
US secretary of state Antony Blinken from Washington
Israeli foreign minister YairLapid from Jerusalem
UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah binZayed 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.
India, Israel and the UAE have also stepped-up a trilateral cooperation, especially in trade and investment, after US negotiated for Abraham Accords in August 2020 between two West Asian countries. Under this partnership, an Israel-based company will produce a robotic solar cleaning technology in India which will be used for a project in the UAE.
