Reiterating that the Quad remains to be a ‘force for global good,’ the Quad leaders made a number of announcements to address the development priorities of the Indo-Pacific region and of the global community as a whole. These include ‘Quad Cancer Moonshot’, a groundbreaking partnership to save lives in the Indo-Pacific region by combating cervical cancer, and ‘Maritime Initiative for Training in the Indo-Pacific’ (MAITRI) to enable Indo-Pacific partners to maximise tools provided through IPMDA (Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness).
They also announced the first-ever ‘Quad-at-Sea Ship Observer Mission’ in 2025 to improve interoperability and advance maritime safety and the ‘Quad Ports of the Future Partnership,’ which will harness the Quad’s collective expertise to support sustainable and resilient port infrastructure development across the Indo-Pacific. Quad leaders also announced ‘Quad Principles for Development and Deployment of Digital Public Infrastructure’ in the region and beyond and a ‘Semiconductor Supply Chains Contingency Network Memorandum of Cooperation’ to enhance the resilience of Quad’s semiconductor supply chains.
India also announced the establishment of a space-based web portal for Mauritius to support the concept of open science for space-based monitoring of extreme weather events and climate impact and a new sub-category under the Quad STEM Fellowship for students of the Indo-Pacific region to pursue a 4-year bachelor’s level engineering programme at a Government of India-funded technical institute. To take the Quad agenda forward, the Quad Leaders adopted the Quad Wilmington Declaration.
