INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Question 1

WHICH COUNTRY RECENTLY WITHDREW FROM BRICS?

Answer 1

ARGENTINA.

Question 2

BRICS MEMBER COUNTRIES?

Answer 2

1 BRAZIL 🇧🇷
2 RUSSIA 🇷🇺
3 INDIA 🇮🇳
4 CHINA 🇨🇳
5 SOUTH AFRICA 🇿🇦
I SEE U
6 IRAN 🇮🇷
7 SAUDI ARABIA 🇸🇦
8 EGYPT 🇪🇬
9 ETHIOPIA 🇪🇹
10 UAE 🇦🇪

Question 3

GLOBAL GENDER GAP REPORT IS RELEASED BY?

Answer 3

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.

Question 4

GLOBAL COOPERATION BAROMETER REPORT IS RELEASED BY?

Answer 4

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.

Question 5

5 KEY TAKEAWAYS OF WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM MEETING IN DAVOS 2024?

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

WHAT IS FREE MOVEMENT REGIMEN?

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

BENEFITS OF FREE MOVEMENT REGIMEN?

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

PROBLEM WITH FREE MOVEMENT REGIME?

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

NATO MEMBERS?

Answer 9

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 🇸🇪

Question 10

WHAT IS UNRWA?

Answer 10

UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINIAN REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST.

Question 11

ECOWAS MEMBER COUNTRIES?

Answer 11

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 🇹🇬

Question 12

WHICH COUNTRIES HAD WITHDRAWN FROM ECOWAS?

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

TREATY ASSOCIATED WITH ESTABLISHMENT OF ECOWAS?

Answer 13

TREATY OF LAGOS.

Question 14

RED SEA MISSION-> ASPIDES IS LAUNCHED BY?

Answer 14

EUROPEAN UNION.

Question 15

MEMBER OF IBSA?

Answer 15

INDIA, BRAZIL AND SOUTH AFRICA.

Question 16

ALBANIA IS PLANNING TO OPEN EMBASSY IN NEW DELHI. WHAT ARE BORDER COUNTRIES OF ALBANIA?

Answer 16

NORTHEAST- KOSOVO
NORTHWEST- MONTENEGRO
EAST- NORTH MACEDONIA
SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST- GREECE
BOUNDED BY ADRIATIC SEA IN THE WEST AND IONIAN SEA IN THE SOUTHWEST.

Question 17

COLLECTIVE SECURITY TREATY ORGANIZATION MEMBER COUNTRIES?

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

NB 8- NORDIC BALTIC COOPERATION MEMBER COUNTRIES?

Answer 18

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

Question 19

WHICH COUNTRY RECENTLY RECOGNIZED ECOCIDE AS A CRIME?

Answer 19

BELGIUM BECAME THE FIRST EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRY TO RECOGNIZE ECOCIDE AS A NATIONAL AS WELL AS INTERNATIONAL CRIME.

Question 20

PANCHESHWAR MULTIPURPOSE PROJECT IS BETWEEN INDIA AND_______.
THIS PROJECT IS A PART OF THE_______ TREATY.

Answer 20

NEPAL.
MAHAKALI TREATY.

Question 21

WHICH COUNTRY RECENTLY JOINED NATO?

Answer 21

SWEDEN.

Question 22

MEMBER STATES OF EFTA (EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION)?

Answer 22

1. ICELAND 🇮🇸
2. LIECHTENSTEIN 🇱🇮
3. NORWAY 🇳🇴
4. SWITZERLAND 🇨🇭.

Question 23

MEMBER COUNTRIES OF EURASIAN EUROPEAN UNION (EAEU)?

Answer 23

1. RUSSIA 🇷🇺
2. ARMENIA 🇦🇲
3. BELARUS 🇧🇾
4. KAZAKHSTAN 🇰🇿
5. KYRGYZSTAN 🇰🇬.

Question 24

Why was Chloropicrin in news?

Answer 24

• 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.