India, the US, UAE, and Israel formed a new Quad of sorts, with their first foreign Ministers meeting on 18 October.
Highlights:
The meeting happened between External affairs minister S Jaishankar, US secretary of state Antony Blinken from Washington, Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid from Jerusalem, UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan from Abu Dhabi.
This meeting is the first to bring four countries together on a single platform, which is a part of Indias efforts to build new plurilateral and multilateral partnerships, which focuses on cooperation in security, connectivity, and energy.
India, Israel, and the UAE have risen to trilateral cooperation, especially in trade and , after the US negotiated Abraham Accords in August 2020 between two West Asian countries.