Preparations are underway for a meeting of the Quad Foreign Ministers in the US on July 1 and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is likely to travel to Washington DC, sources have told T

But given the fluid situation in the wake of the conflict in West Asia where the US has entered the war after bombing nuclear facilities in Iran, a final confirmation is awaited.

Jaishankar will also be able to brief the American leadership on India’s position on the Israel-Iran issue, as was articulated by PM Narendra Modi after his conversation with Iranian President Masoud Pezekshkian in which he called for “dialogue and diplomacy”.

Sources said if all goes to plan, the meeting of the Quad Foreign Ministers will be hosted by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Although the four Quad Foreign Ministers had met in Washington DC at the first multilateral meeting that Rubio held on January 21 — after the inauguration a day earlier of US President Donald Trump — the grouping hasn’t been able to focus on the Indo-Pacific agenda over the last five months.

The US administration has been focused on the two ongoing wars — in Ukraine and in West Asia — and Trump has put much of his bandwidth on these issues, apart from the trade wars he started following the imposition of tariffs.