
TOKYO -- Quad members Japan, the U.S. and Australia must strive to keep India in the grouping, despite New Delhi's reluctance to denounce Russia's invasion of Ukraine, former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Sunday.
In the hard, cold world of foreign policy and national security, "Protecting this framework of the four countries will be extremely important for the peace and safety of the free and open Indo-Pacific," he said. "Through trial and error, Japan is trying to send messages to India."