Seeing the way the newly elected US President Donald Trump is trying to break traditional policies, it is being doubted whether he will support the Quad organization or not? India's Foreign Minister S Jaishankar considers these fears baseless and says that when Trump became President for the first time, Quad started as a meeting of Foreign Ministry officials.

The credit for taking the Quad forward should go to the Trump administration. Jaishankar also stresses that the Quad is not an alliance but a system of coordination between intergovernmental agencies. It has expanded very rapidly. Jaishankar was expressing his views on the Quad while participating in a discussion at the India-Japan Forum on Friday.

What is Quad? 

The Quad is a diplomatic partnership established by the governments of India, the United States, Japan, and Australia, which was initiated to maintain international law and order in the Indo-Pacific region and to make this region free and independent for the whole world to use.

It is believed that China is at the center of this, which aspires to establish its dominance in the Indo-Pacific region. In the last four years, the Quad has made an agenda to increase cooperation from military and strategic cooperation to health and supply chain sector. The next meeting of the top leaders of these four countries is to be held in India next year.

What did S Jaishankar say about the future of Quad? 

Jaishankar said, "The Quad started during the Trump administration. The first meeting of the Deputy Foreign Ministers of the Quad countries was held in the first year of the Trump administration. Later, during Trump's tenure, the first meeting of the Foreign Ministers was held in the year 2019. Looking at the record, I think the Trump administration played a very important role in taking the Quad forward afresh. The way the Quad has progressed after that proves the rightness of their decision.''

He further said that all the members of the Quad are making their own contributions. Trump's insistence on America's traditional alliances does not apply to the Quad.