In his conversation with the Australian Prime Minister on Friday morning Australian time,Mr Biden affirmed plans to hold the meeting “later this[autumn]” in Washington,meaning the meeting would now likely take place in October or November.
It is unclear whether Mr Morrison will be granted his first one-on-one meeting with Mr Biden when he travels to the US. Mr Morrison met Mr Biden for the first time on thesidelines of the G7 summit in June,but the encounter was not one-on-one as originally planned,with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson joining in.
The Australian Prime Minister said he had a “warm conversation” with the President and was “looking forward to travelling to Washington when the Quad meeting will take place”.
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“We have some working dates around it but still some confirmations around that need to occur,” he said.
The re-emergence of the Quad in recent years had angered Beijing,which has labelled the group an “Asian NATO” designed to contain China.
The four leaders of the Quad countries held theirfirst virtual meeting in March where they pledged to distribute one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to developing countries in the Indo-Pacific.