Conventions and protocols

Question 1

MARPOL Convention: ?
By?

Answer 1

Key treaty to prevent and minimise pollution from shipping
By IMO

Question 2

London Dumping Convention and Protocol: ?
By ?

Answer 2

Regulating sea waste dumping, climate change mitigation
like carbon capture and storage, etc

IMO

Question 3

IMO 2020 rule:?

Answer 3

In 2020, a new lower limit on the sulphur content in fuel oil used on board ships was
implemented

Question 4

The International Convention for the Safety of Life (SOLAS Convention), 1974: ?
By?

Answer 4

It sets standards for ship
construction, equipment, and operation to ensure the safety of life at sea

IMO

Question 5

Djibouti Code of Conduct around the western Indian Ocean: ? By ?
✓ Jeddah Amendment to the Djibouti Code of Conduct: ???

Answer 5

Prevent piracy and armed robbery
against ships, IMO

Expanded the code to include organized
crime in the maritime sector, maritime terrorism, human trafficking, and illegal unreported and
unregulated fishing.

Question 6

Belgium, Denmark, Germany and Netherlands signed the ________ Declaration.
o ___________- Declaration aimed at making the North Sea into the “Green Power Plant of Europe”, an offshore
renewable energy system

Answer 6

Esbjerg

Question 7

Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty
(CTBT),1996
* Prohibits ?_____________
o 8 nations have not ratified the treaty yet: ______________

Answer 7

any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other
nuclear explosion anywhere in the world (not yet in force).

China, India,
Pakistan, North Korea, Israel, Iran, Egypt, and the United
States.

Question 8

Partial Test Ban
Treaty (PTBT) -
1963
* Treaty banning ________________.
India?_____________

Answer 8

nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in
outer space and under water

Signed and
ratified

Question 9

Non-Proliferation
Treaty (NPT), 1968
* Limiting the ________________.
o countries_________________ that have never been signatories of the Treaty, and North Korea withdrew
from the Treaty in 2003.
o The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is
entrusted with key verification responsibilities under the treaty

India?

Answer 9

spread of nuclear weapons through the three
pillars of non-proliferation, disarmament, and peaceful use of
nuclear energy

India, South Sudan, Israel, and Pakistan

Not Signed

Question 10

Treaty on the
Prohibition of
Nuclear Weapons
(TPNW), 2017
* _____________
o It is signed by 91 states and ratified by 68 states.
India?__________

Answer 10

It is the first legally binding multilateral agreement to ban
nuclear weapons adopted by UN (entered into force in 2021).

Not signed or
ratified

Question 11

Multilateral Export
Control Regimes
(MECR)
* Voluntary and binding agreements to prevent transfer of goods
and technologies that support proliferation of nuclear
weapons and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
These include:
* Nuclear supplier groups (NSG), 1974 _____________.
* Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) for ______________
* Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) for _______________
* Australia Group (AG) for ________________

India?

Answer 11

to prevent exports
of nuclear related technology. It is a group of forty-eight
nuclear supplier countries

control
of rockets and other aerial vehicles.

conventional Arms
and Dual Use Technologies.

control of chemical and
biological technologies that could be weaponized

Member of
MTCR, WA,
AG.
* Not a
member of
NSG

Question 12

Concept of Nuclear-
Weapon-Free Zones
(NWFZ)
* ______________-
o Presently there are five treaties: Treaty of __________ (For Latin America and the Caribbean), Treaty of _________ (for
south pacific), Treaty of _______ (for southeast Asia),
Treaty of _________ (for Africa), Treaty of _________
(for Central Asia).

Answer 12

It is a regional approach to strengthening global nuclear
non-proliferation and disarmament norms and
consolidating international efforts towards peace and
security.

Tlatelolco
Rarotonga
Bangkok
Pelindaba
Semipalatinsk

Question 13

Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START I, START II, New
START):

Answer 13

A series of bilateral treaties between the United
States and the Soviet Union/Russian Federation aimed at
reducing and limiting strategic offensive arms

Question 14

Outer Space Treaty (OST), 1967 :
India?

Answer 14

It prohibits the placing of
nuclear weapons in space.

Signed

Question 15

Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT):______

india?

Answer 15

Proposed
international agreement that would prohibit the production
of the two main components of nuclear weapons: highly
enriched uranium (HEU) and plutonium

India supports