During a fireside chat with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong at the Indian Ocean Conference, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar expressed confidence in the increasing significance of the Quad grouping, comprising India, the US, Japan, and Australia
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday visited Sailani Avenue here named after Indian-origin soldier Nain Singh Sailani, who sacrificed his life during World War I while serving the Australian Imperial Force.
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Addressing the Indian community here, Jaishankar started by highlighting how it was under Prime Minister Narendra Modi that a “new energy, this new interest, which has come into our foreign policy,” compared it with how it used to be in earlier years and said, “It took us 20 years after independence to have the first Prime Ministerial visit to Australia” and how every Prime Minister of Australia, since 2014, has met with Modi