Munich, Feb. 14 -- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said that the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) Leaders' Summit was "not cancelled" because it had never been formally scheduled. While acknowledging that a leaders' meeting did not take place, he cautioned against overinterpreting that development.

He was responding to a question at the Munich Security Conference 2026 on whether the security grouping comprising India, the United States, Japan and Australia had lost momentum in the absence of a leaders' summit last year and whether the Quad's unity could be sustained under a second Trump administration.

"The fact that the Quad did not take place at the summit level itself, I wouldn't overread it. So do stay tuned...