Australia and India’s foreign ministers have said they were confident the Quad group of the US, India, Australia and Japan would continue to cooperate in the Indo-Pacific region regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election, Reuters reports.

Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong told reporters in Canberra she had met Mike Pompeo, who served as Secretary of State in the previous Trump Administration, ahead of the US election and had “a very good discussion”.

“In terms of the US election, we will work with whomever the American people choose,” she said.

The Quad was “very valuable” in the region, Wong said. “We see it retaining its importance regardless of the outcome of the election,” she added.

“When we look at the American election, we are very confident that whatever the verdict, our relationship with the United States will only grow,” Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said, on an official visit to Australia.

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