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The first summit of the Indo-Pacific Regional Council, Quad, consisting of the United States, Japan, Australia and India, was held.

The leaders of the four countries also confirmed their willingness to keep China in check and devote itself to the denuclearization of North Korea through vaccine diplomacy.



This is Kim Yoon-soo, a correspondent from Washington.



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heads of four quad countries, called the China Containment Council, gathered in Burn.



This is the first summit since the launch of Quad in 2004.



US President Biden, who has changed all of Trump's diplomatic stances and inherited the quad, has expressed his willingness to cooperate.



[Biden/US President: The Quad will be an essential stage for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region.

We look forward to working more closely with the four countries in the future.] The



leaders of the four countries aimed at China, saying that the security challenges facing the Indo-Pacific region have brought them back together.



[Modi/India Prime Minister: We are united by the values ​​of democracy and our belief in a free, open, and inclusive Indo-Pacific region.]



Quad leaders selected Corona 19 response, climate change, and maritime order as major joint response tasks I did.



First, it has agreed to support vaccine production by Indian pharmaceutical companies in order to strengthen equitable vaccine access in the Indo-Pacific region.



It is a response to the expansion of vaccine diplomacy by supplying vaccines developed by China to developing countries.



In relation to vaccine distribution, technical cooperation, and climate change, a working group was formed, and foreign ministers' meetings were held at least once a year to expand the contact area.



The leaders of the four quad nations also pledged joint responses, citing the complete denuclearization of North Korea as a task to be devoted to.