INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Flashcards
WHICH COUNTRY RECENTLY WITHDREW FROM BRICS?
ARGENTINA.
BRICS MEMBER COUNTRIES?
1 BRAZIL 🇧🇷
2 RUSSIA 🇷🇺
3 INDIA 🇮🇳
4 CHINA 🇨🇳
5 SOUTH AFRICA 🇿🇦
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6 IRAN 🇮🇷
7 SAUDI ARABIA 🇸🇦
8 EGYPT 🇪🇬
9 ETHIOPIA 🇪🇹
10 UAE 🇦🇪
GLOBAL GENDER GAP REPORT IS RELEASED BY?
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.
GLOBAL COOPERATION BAROMETER REPORT IS RELEASED BY?
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.
5 KEY TAKEAWAYS OF WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM MEETING IN DAVOS 2024?
1 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
2 WAR AND UNCERTAINTY
3 CLIMATE CHANGE
4 CHINA’S ECONOMY (FACING SLOW DOWN)
5 INDIA (INDIA IS TRANSFORMING RAPIDLY AS ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING LARGE ECONOMIES.
WHAT IS FREE MOVEMENT REGIMEN?
FREE MOVEMENT REGIMEN CAME INTO FORCE IN 2018 TO FACILITATE REGULATION AND HARMONISATION OF EXISTING FREE MOVEMENT RIGHTS OF PEOPLE LIVING ALONG THE BORDER OF INDIA AND MYANMAR.
IT ALLOWS TRIBES LIVING ALONG THE BORDER ON EITHER SIDE TO TRAVEL UP TO 16 KM INSIDE THE OTHER COUNTRY WITHOUT A VISA.
IT IS SUSPENDED SINCE SEPTEMBER 2022 AND INDO-MYANMAR BORDER WILL BE FENCED.
BENEFITS OF FREE MOVEMENT REGIMEN?
1 PEOPLE HAVE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY TIES ON BOTH SIDES.
2 FACILITATE PEOPLE TO PEOPLE CONTACT.
3 PROVIDE IMPETUS TO LOCAL TRADE AND BUSINESS.
4 TRANS BORDER CUSTOMS AND BORDER HAATS.
5 MYANMAR PEOPLE FIND INDIAN TOWNS CLOSER FOR BUSINESS, EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE THAT BRING REMITTANCES TO INDIA.
PROBLEM WITH FREE MOVEMENT REGIME?
1 AIDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
2 DRUG TRAFFICKING (YABA TABLETS- METHAMPHETAMINE
3 GUN RUNNING ACROSS THE BORDER
4 REFUGEE CRISIS- KUKI CHIN TRIBALS AND ROHINGYA REFUGEES
5 COMPROMISES TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND SOVEREIGNTY OF INDIA.
NATO MEMBERS?
1 ALBANIA 🇦🇱 2 BELGIUM 🇧🇪
3 BULGARIA 🇧🇬 4 CANADA 🇨🇦
5 CROATIA 🇭🇷 6 CZECH REPUBLIC 🇨🇿
7 DENMARK 🇩🇰 8 ESTONIA
9 FINLAND 🇫🇮 10 FRANCE 🇫🇷
11 GERMANY 🇩🇪 12 GREECE 🇬🇷
13 HUNGARY 🇭🇺 14 ICELAND 🇮🇸
15 ITALY 🇮🇹 16 LATVIA 🇱🇻
17 LITHUANIA 🇱🇹18 LUXEMBOURG🇱🇺
19 MONTENEGRO 🇲🇪 20 NORWAY 🇳🇴
21 NETHERLANDS 🇳🇱 22 POLAND 🇵🇱
23 NORTH MACEDONIA 🇲🇰
24 PORTUGAL 🇵🇹 25 ROMANIA 🇷🇴
26 SLOVAKIA 🇸🇰 27 SPAIN 🇪🇸
28 TURKIYE 🇹🇷 29 UK 🇬🇧
30 USA 🇺🇸 31 SLOVENIA 🇸🇮
32 SWEDEN 🇸🇪
WHAT IS UNRWA?
UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINIAN REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST.
ECOWAS MEMBER COUNTRIES?
1 BENIN 🇧🇯
2 CABO VERDE
3 COTE D’IVOIRE
4 GAMBIA 🇬🇲
5 GHANA 🇬🇭
6 GUINEA 🇬🇳
7 GUINEA-BISSAU
8 LIBERIA 🇱🇷
9 NIGERIA 🇳🇬
10 SENEGAL 🇸🇳
11 SIERRA LEONE 🇸🇱
12 TOGO 🇹🇬
WHICH COUNTRIES HAD WITHDRAWN FROM ECOWAS?
1 BURKINA FASO 🇧🇫
2 MALI 🇲🇱
3 NIGER 🇳🇪
THEY ARE PLANNING TO ESTABLISH ALLIANCE OF SAHEL REGION.
NOTE- GUINEA WAS SUSPENDED BY THE ECOWAS BUT IT HAS NOT WITHDRAWN FROM ECOWAS.
TREATY ASSOCIATED WITH ESTABLISHMENT OF ECOWAS?
TREATY OF LAGOS.
RED SEA MISSION-> ASPIDES IS LAUNCHED BY?
EUROPEAN UNION.
MEMBER OF IBSA?
INDIA, BRAZIL AND SOUTH AFRICA.
ALBANIA IS PLANNING TO OPEN EMBASSY IN NEW DELHI. WHAT ARE BORDER COUNTRIES OF ALBANIA?
NORTHEAST- KOSOVO
NORTHWEST- MONTENEGRO
EAST- NORTH MACEDONIA
SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST- GREECE
BOUNDED BY ADRIATIC SEA IN THE WEST AND IONIAN SEA IN THE SOUTHWEST.
COLLECTIVE SECURITY TREATY ORGANIZATION MEMBER COUNTRIES?
1 RUSSIA
2 ARMENIA
3 BELARUS
4 KAZAKHSTAN
5 KYRGYZSTAN
6 TAJIKISTAN
ARMENIA IS ABOUT TO QUIT IT.
UZBEKISTAN JOINED IN 2006 AND THEN WITHDREW AGAIN IN 2012.
NB 8- NORDIC BALTIC COOPERATION MEMBER COUNTRIES?
NB 8 RECENTLY PARTICIPATED IN RAISINA DIALOGUE IN NEW DELHI.
● NORDIC COUNTRIES- FIND SWEDEN.
1 FINLAND
2 ICELAND
3 NORWAY
4 DENMARK
5 SWEDEN
● BALTIC COUNTRIES
6 ESTONIA
7 LATVIA
8 LITHUANIA
WHICH COUNTRY RECENTLY RECOGNIZED ECOCIDE AS A CRIME?
BELGIUM BECAME THE FIRST EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRY TO RECOGNIZE ECOCIDE AS A NATIONAL AS WELL AS INTERNATIONAL CRIME.
PANCHESHWAR MULTIPURPOSE PROJECT IS BETWEEN INDIA AND_______.
THIS PROJECT IS A PART OF THE_______ TREATY.
NEPAL.
MAHAKALI TREATY.
WHICH COUNTRY RECENTLY JOINED NATO?
SWEDEN.
MEMBER STATES OF EFTA (EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION)?
- ICELAND 🇮🇸
- LIECHTENSTEIN 🇱🇮
- NORWAY 🇳🇴
- SWITZERLAND 🇨🇭.
MEMBER COUNTRIES OF EURASIAN EUROPEAN UNION (EAEU)?
- RUSSIA 🇷🇺
- ARMENIA 🇦🇲
- BELARUS 🇧🇾
- KAZAKHSTAN 🇰🇿
- KYRGYZSTAN 🇰🇬.
Why was Chloropicrin in news?
- Chloropicrin (a C-nitro compound that is nitromethane) in which all three hydrogens are replaced by chlorines.
- Used by Russia against Ukraine recently.
- Common names Nitrochloroform, Dolochlor, Picfume.