EAM Jaishankar to pay 3-day visit to Tokyo for Quad meet

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will pay a three-day visit to Tokyo beginning July 28 to attend a foreign ministerial meeting of the four-nation grouping Quad.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and her Australian counterpart Penny Wong will be the other participants at the Quad meeting on July 29.

“At the invitation of Foreign Minister of Japan Yoko Kamikawa, Minister of External Affairs, S Jaishankar, will be paying an official visit to Japan from July 28-30 to participate in the next meeting of the Quad Foreign Ministers’ in Tokyo on July 29,” the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.