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US's Blinken to attend Quad meeting in Australia next week

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will head to Australia next week to meet with Indo-Pacific allies and attend the Quad Foreign Ministers Ministerial Meeting, the US State Department said on Friday.

Blinken will travel Feb. 7 to Feb. 13, with stops in Fiji and Hawaii, the department said in a statement. The so-called Quad includs the four major democracies of the United States, Japan, India and Australia.