 The first in-person meeting of the Quad, this group of Democratic partners who share a world view and have a common vision for the future, coming together to take on key challenges of our age. From COVID to climate to emerging technologies, it embodies an approach I spoke of at the UN earlier this week. When we met six months ago, we made concrete commitments to advance our shared and positive agenda for free and open Indo-Pacific. Today, I'm proud to say that we're making excellent progress. Our vaccine initiative is on track to produce an additional 1 billion doses of vaccine in India to boost global supply. We're taking action on climate change with new partnership toward zero emissions shipping. And today, we're also launching a new Quad fellowship for students from each of our Quad countries to pursue advanced degrees in leading STEM programs here in the United States. It represents an investment in the leaders, innovators, and pioneers of tomorrow. In sum, we're four major democracies with a long history of cooperation. We know how to get things done and we are up to the challenge. And I'm looking forward to our discussion today and I thank you. And now I yield to my friend from India. In 2004, after the tsunami, we came together for the help of the Indo-Pacific region. Today, when the world is competing against the COVID-19 pandemic, we are once again in the hands of humanity. Our Quad Vaccine Initiative will help the Indo-Pacific countries greatly. On the basis of its shared democratic values, the Quad has decided to move forward with a positive approach. Whether it is a supply chain or a vice week's work, climate action, or COVID response, or technology, I would be very happy to talk to my friends about all of these things. Our Quad will work in a force for global peace and stability. Thank you very much, Prime Minister. Thank you, Mr President. It is a great honor to be here with you here in this magnificent place and I thank you for your leadership and bringing us together in person this time and to join our great friends, Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister Suga and Secretary Blinken. It's good to be here with you also. We are liberal democracies that believe in a world order that favors freedom and we believe in a free and open Indo-Pacific because we know that's what delivers a strong, stable and prosperous region so our citizens, our peoples, can realize their hopes and dreams for their futures in a liberal and free society. The Quad is about demonstrating how democracy such as ours, as you said, Mr President, can get things done that can deal with the big challenges that we face in a very complex and changing world and there is no part of the world that is more dynamic than the Indo-Pacific at this time. A region that has extraordinary opportunity, wide diversity, great wealth but many challenges that must be overcome and we see the role of our nations. We see our home in the Indo-Pacific as the place that we wish to focus on to ensure that our peoples can realize everything they would have for themselves. So as we gather here together again as a Quad in person for the first time in just six months from our last meeting so much has already been accomplished and we come together with great hope for what's ahead. 670 million, at least safe and effective doses of vaccines already out there, a billion is our goal Mr President and we will add more to that today. Using our national strengths collectively to manufacture and distribute these vaccines to have the doses but also to ensure they go that last mile to ensure they are administered in all parts of the region. Working together on low emissions technologies that will indeed change the world and take the world to a net zero economy, a new energy economy. We're working to make cyberspace and emerging and critical technologies trusted and secure in open societies, solving problems and addressing the supply chain challenges that in many ways hold the keys to our security and our prosperity and our environment in the 21st century. So we stand here together in the Indo-Pacific region, a region that we wish to be always free from coercion where the sovereign rights of all nations are respected and where disputes are settled peacefully and accordance with international law. We come together in collective strength with mutual respect, transparently and importantly as one. So thank you again Mr President for joining us together as Quad leaders at this meeting. On behalf of the Australian people can I thank all of the leaders of the Quad who share this great forum for their leadership in our region. I mean no doubt that together our four nations multiply many times over the forces of hope for a free open and inclusive Indo-Pacific and with that I'm delighted to hand over to my dear friend, the Prime Minister of Japan, Prime Minister Suga. The Quad is an extremely significant initiative by four countries who share fundamental values, cooperating for the cause of realizing a free and open international order based on the rule of law in the Pacific. To date the Quad has been promoting practical cooperation in extensive areas to deal with regional challenges including COVID-19. The summit, how we can take stock of concrete progress achieved so far and discuss ways to further expand and broad cooperation in new areas such as in the Quad. Thank you.