Quad Leaders’ Summit 2024: Anthony Albanese travels to Delaware for joint meeting between Japan, US and India

Anthony Albanese will fly to the United States next week for the 2024 Quad Leader’s Summit after President Joe Biden cancelled last year’s joint meeting in Sydney between the powers at the last minute.

The Quad meeting — a four-way regional security dialogue between Australia, the US, Japan and India — will be held on September 21 in Wilmington, Delaware.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, India’s Narendra Modi and President Biden will meet Mr Albanese to discuss climate change, and the Indo-Pacific while also likely sending a message to China.

It will mark the fourth face-to-face Quad summit between the leaders after their first in-person gathering at the White House in September 2021.

The Prime Minister indicated he planned to discuss “important issues” facing the Indo-Pacific region while strengthening the Quad’s relationship.

“Australia is deeply invested in the future prosperity and stability of the Indo-Pacific,” he said.

“Australia, the United States, India, and Japan share a vision for a region that is governed by accepted rules and norms, where all countries can co-operate, trade and thrive.

“We will work together to shape the kind of region in which we want to live. We are always better off when we act together with our close friends and partners.”

Maritime security, energy supply chains and regional health security are some of the areas the Albanese Government wants to discuss.

The next meeting between the powers is scheduled for India next year.

Joe Biden cancelled last year’s Sydney Quad meeting — which was going to be held at the Opera House — over his country’s debt-ceiling crisis. This resulted in the four leaders holding a makeshift 50-minute gathering on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima.

Mr Albanese is poised to make several other international trips over the next 12 months, including to the East Asia and G20 leaders’ summits, CHOGM, APEC and the inauguration of incoming Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto.