India to host Quad Summit 2025, Donald Trump to represent the US

The Quad Summit, originally scheduled to be held in New Delhi this September, was relocated to New York due to a scheduling conflict among the attending leaders.

In Short

• India to host 2025 Quad Summit in New Delhi
• US President-elect Donald Trump to attend the event
• 2024 Summit moved to New York due to scheduling conflict

India will host the 2025 edition of the Quad Summit with newly-elected United States President Donald Trump set to attend the grouping, officials said.

The Quad Summit, originally scheduled to be held in New Delhi this September, was relocated to New York due to a scheduling conflict among the attending leaders.

"When we were planning for this year's Quad Summit, India was scheduled to host but as we looked at all four of these leaders' schedules, we became increasingly clear that the best way to make sure that they met and had the time they wanted to have these discussions would be this weekend here in the US," Mira Rapp-Hooper, Senior Director for East Asia and Oceania, National Security Council had said in September this year.

"We do expect that next year the Quad Summit will take place in India. PM Modi graciously agreed to swap host years with us and we do expect all four Quad leaders to meet in India next year," she added.

Even the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) had said that India will host the Quad Summit in 2025. "Following the request of the US side to host the Quad Summit this year, India has agreed to host the next Quad Summit in 2025," it noted.

For the last Quad Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a three-day visit to the United States on September 21 and met several global leaders, including the outgoing US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida.