New Delhi - Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday kicked off his two-day Japan visit as he arrived in Tokyo for the Quad Leaders’ Summit. The summit is aimed at further bolstering cooperation among the member nations – the US, Australia, India, Japan – and discussing developments in the Indo-Pacific region.

During the two-day visit, PM Modi is scheduled to hold bilateral meetings with US President Joe Biden, Japanese PM Fumio Kishida and Australia's newly elected PM Anthony Albanese on the side-lines of the event. He is scheduled to attend an event where Biden will launch the ambitious Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF), an initiative aimed at deeper cooperation among like-minded countries in areas such as clean energy, supply-chain resilience and digital trade.

The Quad summit in Japan on Tuesday will provide an opportunity to the leaders to review the progress of their common initiatives and exchange views on the developments in the Indo-Pacific region and global issues of mutual interest, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a statement before his departure to Tokyo.

To rope in more countries in the IPEF, the US has watered down the launch text by saying that the participants will start consultations, and not “launch negotiations” right away, for the IPEF, said a Financial Times report from Washington. The US has also clarified that the IPEF is not a security arrangement.

Apart from China’s military aggression, the Ukraine issue is again likely to dominate the agenda of meetings in Tokyo. On the bilateral with the US, while Modi said he will continue with Biden their dialogue on regional developments and contemporary global issues.