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Consider the following statements:

1. The Nuclear Suppliers Group has 24 countries as its members.
2. India is a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Where are the headquarters of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) located?

Which one of the following is NOT a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization?

Consider the following statements:

1. North Atlantic Co-operation Council (NACC) is the name of the new organization which has replaced the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
2. The United States of America and the United Kingdom became members of NATO when it was formed in 1949.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following pairs of countries joined the European Union in 2007?

Consider the following statements:

1. China has observer status at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.
2. India has observer status at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Near the end of the year 2006,

which one of the following countries was suspended from the Commonwealth after a military coup?

Which one of the following countries is not a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)?

Which one of the following countries is not a member of ASEAN?

Where is Davos—the venue of the annual meeting of World Economic Forum—located?

Consider the following statements:

1. Kofi Annan – the UN Secretary-General is from Nigeria.
2. Kofi Annan is the first UN Secretary-General to be appointed from the ranks of the United Nations staff.
3. Kofi Annan was appointed for a second term to the office of the UN Secretary-General.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Which one of the following countries is not a member of the Nordic Council?

Consider the following statements:

1. The Charter of the United Nations Organization was adopted at Geneva, Switzerland in June 1945.
2. India was admitted to the United Nations Organization in the year 1945.
3. The Trusteeship Council of the United Nations Organization was established to look after the affairs of territories detached from Japan and Italy after the Second World War or such territories not under the control of a country at that time.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following is not an ASEAN member?

In which country is Bandung, where the Conference of African and Asian nations was held which led to establishing Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), situated?

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

1. Nairobi
2. Vienna
3. Berne
4. New York

List I (Agency) (A) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (B) United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (C) United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) (D) Universal Postal Union (UPU)

List II (Headquarters)

Codes:

Match List I (Organisation) with List II (Headquarters) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

1. Brussels
2. Geneva
3. Paris
4. Vienna

List I (Organisation) A. International Atomic Energy Agency B. International Telecommunication Union C. Council of the European Union D. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

List II (Headquarters)

Codes:

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum was held in the year 2001 in

Mekong Ganga Cooperation Project is

Which one of the countries labelled as 1, 2, 3 and 4 on the given map was grantee membership of G-15 in its VII Summit at Kuala Lumpur? The original map is not available for this question.

Consider the following statements about the European Union: I. The European Union was known earlier as the European Community. II. The Single European Act (1986) and the Maastricht Treaty were milestones in its formation. III. Citizens of European Union countries enjoy dual citizenship. IV. Switzerland is a member of the European Union.

Which of the above statements are correct?

The meeting of G-15 countries held in Malaysia in 1997 was attended by

The currency of the proposed European Monetary Union will be

Assertion (A): The United States of America has threatened to ask the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to apply sanctions against the developing countries for the no observance of ILO conventions.

Reason (R): The United States of America itself has adopted and implemented those ILO conventions.

What are the official languages of the U.N.O.?

The economic and monetary union of 15 European Countries is proposed to be made by 1999. But the currencies of two countries, Franc, have already the same value and circulate freely in both the countries. The countries are

‘They are fantastically diverse. They speak hundreds of languages and dialects. They comprise scores of ethnic groups. They include highly industrialised economies and up-and-coming economies. They span half the surface of the earth and are home to two-fifths of the world’s population.’ The group of countries referred to belongs to

Which of the following are correctly matched? I. Hamas — Palestinian extremist group II. Sinn Fein — IRA’s political wing

III. True Path Party — A major constituent of the ruling coalition in Turkey

Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:

Which one of the following countries had in 1994 voted against joining the European Union?