New Delhi, May 26 -- The 11th Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting held in New Delhi on Tuesday, focused on the launch of new initiatives, including on maritime surveillance and critical minerals, to strengthen cooperation between member states, while underscoring the grouping's continued emphasis on practical collaboration for a free and open Indo-Pacific.

Key outcomes also included initiating energy security policies alongside a joint port infrastructure pilot project in Fiji.

Addressing a special media briefing after the meeting here, Additional Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, Nagaraj Naidu, said that the discussions centred around maritime and transnational security, economic prosperity and security, critical and emerging ...