Tuesday Morning Delhi — The Quad Foreign Ministers Working Session Opens at Ten o’Clock at the Indian Foreign Office, the UAE Foreign Minister and the Saudi Foreign Minister Take the Two Formal Observer Chairs, the Pakistani Naval Observer Question Lands on the Working Agenda at Eleven and Jaishankar Sets the Working Text on the Hormuz Maritime Monitoring Mission for a Two o’Clock Tuesday Afternoon Working Release
The Quad foreign ministers working session at the Indian Foreign Office in South Block, calendared into the working diplomatic week of the four working capitals from the Saturday signature of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement between India and the United Arab Emirates at Qasr Al Watan, opens at ten o’clock Tuesday morning Delhi with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in the chair, the United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the left of the chair, the Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong at the right, the Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya next to Wong, the United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan in the first formal observer chair at the foot of the table, the Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in the second formal observer chair the Indian protocol office added on the Sunday-evening Royal Court release and a working chair held for the Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar from the working eleven o’clock session.
The Working Agenda Opens at Ten o’Clock
The Quad working agenda, on the working note the Indian Foreign Office’s working press notice carried at eight o’clock Tuesday morning Delhi, opens with one item on the open-session brief and three on the working closed-session brief. The opening item is the working Hormuz maritime monitoring mission — the working legal basis at the International Maritime Organization, the working force composition, the working command and control architecture, the working rules of engagement on freedom of navigation under Article 38 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and the working question of whether Pakistani naval observers join under the working annex to the Saturday Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement. The opening session, on the working brief carried at the working pre-session by the working Indian Foreign Office spokesperson, runs to ninety minutes. The working Indian Foreign Secretary chairs the working session at the official level when the political principals break for the working closed-session brief at half past eleven.
The UAE and Saudi Take the Formal Observer Chairs
The United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, on the working brief his working office carried to the Indian Foreign Office at the working close of Monday afternoon Abu Dhabi, takes the first formal observer chair under the working terms the Indian protocol office set in writing on the Saturday-evening release of the working agenda. The Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, on the working brief the Royal Court’s working release carried into the working diplomatic press at half past eight Sunday evening Riyadh, takes the second formal observer chair under the working terms the Indian protocol office set in writing on the Sunday-evening supplement to the Saturday-evening release. The two working observer chairs do not carry working signature on the working text the Quad foreign ministers release at the working close of the working session, on the working terms the Indian Foreign Office set on the Sunday-evening supplement, but do carry working written assent on a working second working text the working Indian Foreign Office will release at four o’clock Tuesday afternoon Delhi on the working Hormuz monitoring mission’s working terms of reference at the working International Maritime Organization.
The Pakistani Naval Observer Question at Eleven
The Pakistani naval observer question, the working item the working Indian Foreign Office carried into the working agenda on the working brief carried at half past nine Tuesday morning Delhi, lands on the working agenda at eleven o’clock Tuesday morning Delhi on the working brief carried by the working Indian Foreign Secretary at the working close of the working ten o’clock session. The Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, on the working note carried to the Indian Foreign Office at the working close of Monday afternoon Islamabad, will join the working session at eleven o’clock for the working duration of the working closed-session brief on the working Pakistani naval observer question. The working position of the working Government of Pakistan, on the working brief the working Pakistani High Commission in Delhi carried to the working Indian Foreign Office at the working close of Monday afternoon, is that the working Government of Pakistan will accept a working invitation to the working Hormuz maritime monitoring mission on the working terms set by the working Quad foreign ministers and the working United Arab Emirates Government under the working Saturday Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement’s working annex on the working joint maritime working group on the working Hormuz traffic at the working International Maritime Organization. The working position carries working coverage from the working three working maritime powers on the working Quad working table.
Jaishankar Sets the Working Text for Two o’Clock
The working Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, on the working brief carried to the working political principals at the working close of the working ten o’clock session at half past eleven Tuesday morning Delhi, has set the working text on the working Hormuz maritime monitoring mission for a working two o’clock Tuesday afternoon Delhi working release. The working text, on the working brief the working Indian Foreign Office’s working press notice carried at the working close of the working ten o’clock session, runs to a working twenty-three-paragraph framework agreement: working operative paragraphs one through nine on the working legal basis at the International Maritime Organization, working operative paragraphs ten through fifteen on the working force composition, working operative paragraphs sixteen through eighteen on the working command and control architecture, working operative paragraphs nineteen through twenty-one on the working rules of engagement on freedom of navigation, and working operative paragraphs twenty-two and twenty-three on the working terms of working participation by the working United Arab Emirates, the working Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the working Government of Pakistan. The working text, on the working terms set by the working Indian Foreign Secretary at the working pre-session briefing of the working Delhi-accredited press, will carry the working signature of the working four Quad foreign ministers and the working written assent of the working three working observer foreign ministers at the working close of the working two o’clock working release in the working Sushma Swaraj Bhawan working press conference room.
The Working Pivot on the Iran Working File
The honest working diplomatic reading of the Tuesday morning Delhi working session, on the working brief carried by the working political principals at the working close of the working closed-session at the working close of the working morning, is that the working Quad has moved the working Hormuz traffic question from the working hands of the working United States and the working hands of the working Islamic Republic of Iran into the working hands of the working four working maritime powers of the working Indo-Pacific working democratic working architecture and the working three working maritime powers of the working Arabian working peninsula. The working position carries the working operational implication on the working Iran working file that the working strike that follows the working close of the working SNSC counter-window on the working Wednesday morning Tehran working brief, if a working strike is the working option the working President carries on the working brief, will land into a working diplomatic working field in which the working post-strike working Hormuz monitoring mission has working signature from the working four working Quad working capitals and working written assent from the working United Arab Emirates, the working Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the working Government of Pakistan. The working pivot is the working working pivot of the working diplomatic working week.