President Biden is meeting privately at his Delaware mansion with the other three world leaders who make up the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue.
The White House has already issued statements acknowledging the arrival of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was seen arriving at the residence on Saturday.
The meeting is taking place in the president’s hometown of Wilmington, but the highly private nature of the event has drawn the ire of the White House Correspondents’ Association.
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U.S. Secret Service agents stand guard at the entrance to President Joe Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware. (Andrew Caballero Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
The heads of state will be invited to a low-key dinner on Saturday evening at Archmere Academy, the president’s alma mater.
Administration officials have sought to portray the event’s unusual format and venue as a gesture of hospitality, but members of the media have criticized the closed-door nature of Biden’s final meeting with a world leader.
“These are personal relationships that are very important to him, and he believes personal relationships are important to foreign policy,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby previously told reporters.
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(From left) U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pose for a photograph during a “Quad” meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit. (JAPAN POOL/Jiji Press/AFP via Getty Images)
“This will be President Biden’s first time hosting foreign leaders in Wilmington as president, reflecting the strong relationships he has with these leaders and their strategic importance,” the State Department said in a briefing.
“It is unacceptable to the WHCA that the White House’s choice of venue means we are denied access to the President of the United States for these bilateral meetings,” WHCA president and Politico correspondent Eugene Daniels said in an email to reporters obtained by Fox News Digital.
In a message to the White House, Daniels said: “My understanding is that the Administration’s current position is simply to allow press to watch the leaders drive in, away from cameras and surveillance cameras, during this historic moment. I cannot recall a time when a President has held a bilateral meeting on US soil that was not viewable by the press and the American people.”
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s motorcade arrived at US President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, for informal talks ahead of the Quad summit. (Brendan Smiarowski/AFP via Getty Images)
He added, “It is the WHCA’s position that this should not happen again. (We) discussed various scenarios and possibilities for covering these moments. While we understand that there are safety concerns, it is essential that the public at least learns about the greeting from a direct and independent media outlet.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said it was “not unusual” for reporters to not have access to the president when he meets with foreign leaders at his home, but continued to stress that reporters would be able to see Biden and other world leaders when they return home.
The meeting is expected to be one of Biden’s final summits with a foreign leader since dropping out of the presidential race earlier this year.
Fox News Digital’s Lindsay Cornick contributed to this report.