Foreign Minister S Jaishankar will leave the United States on September 20 to UNGA and prepare the groundwork for the first Biden-Modi summit on September 23.
With India and Australia on the same page in Afghanistan and the Indo-Pacific, the focus is on the QUAD summit in Washington as Foreign Minister Jaishankar travels to the US on September 20 to UNGA and prepares the groundwork for the first party conference between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President American Joe Biden.
While EAM Jaishankar will fly to New York and will be in Washington on September 22 evening when Prime Minister Modi arrives, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval will be accompanying the Prime Minister on Air India One. Prime Minister Modi will address UNGA on the morning of September 25 and then travel to India unless a two-minute international meeting is adjourned next to UNGA. EAM Jaishankar will hold bilateral meetings with other foreign ministers throughout the UNGA high week starting September 21 and will return later.
During a visit to the US, the focus will be on the Taliban ruling Afghanistan as it becomes increasingly clear that Sunni Islamist forces will continue to uphold the rule of law and will be brutal as they approach women and a few others. With Pakistan's ISI heavily involved in the political and military affairs of the Taliban government in Kabul, the international community will be responsible for Islamabad should any terrorist attacks come from Afghanistan in the future. The QUAD body conference will discuss the situation in Afghanistan, the spread of coronavirus, the Indo-Pacific and detailed climate change with all stakeholders on the same page on important issues.
In 2021 the Taliban judged Afghanistan that a new axis of power had emerged when Pakistan, Qatar and Turkey were the main players backed by China as opposed to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE and backed by the Sunni Pashtuns in 1996-2001. The role played by Qatari intelligence chief Mohammed bin Ahmed Al-Misnad in facilitating the Doha process and providing a private aircraft with the UN-appointed terrorist team, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, now deputy prime minister, to reach Kandahar after the Taliban capture Kabul will not be overlooked. With the exception of Pakistani ISI, Qatar's proximity to the Taliban is evident as this has made Kabul airport operational.
Another important issue to be heard again during Prime Minister Modi's visit to the US will be the Indo-Pacific and the right to travel freely across the South China Sea and Beijing to find a growing war to enforce its baseless claims on the region. QUAD navies, on the other hand, tended to practice at the Indo-Pacific and Malabar Exercise which just ended off the coast of Guam last month.
The first two and two talks between India and Australia on Friday clearly showed that both countries have similar concerns about Indo-Pacific and Afghanistan as Canberra's position is different from that of Pakistan in the UK during the takeover of the Taliban Kabul. Just as India is being pressured by Beijing across the Line of Actual Control (LAC), Australia has a war against China demanding an investigation into allegations of human rights abuses by Australian soldiers during deportation to Afghanistan.
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