TOKYO (Reuters) – Leaders of the Quad grouping of countries — the United States, India, Australia and Japan — agreed on Thursday that what’s happening to Ukraine should not be allowed to happen in the Indo-Pacific, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said.
“We’ve agreed that unilateral changes to the status quo with force like this should not be allowed in the Indo-Pacific region,” Kishida said, referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“We’ve also agreed this development makes it even more important to work toward realising a free and open Indo-Pacific,” Kishida told reporters after the virtual meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Toby Chopra)
