With reference to 'Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (APMCHUD)', consider the following statements:1. The first APMCHUD was held in India in 2006 on the theme 'Emerging Urban Forms — Policy Responses and Governance Structure'.2. India hosts all the Annual Ministerial Conferences in partnership with ADB, APEC and ASEAN.Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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Neither 1 nor 2. The correct answer is Neither 1 nor 2. Statement 1 is half right. The first APMCHUD was held in India, in New Delhi, in December 2006. But its theme was "A vision for sustainable urbanisation in the Asia-Pacific by 2020". The theme in the statement belongs to the 6th conference, held in New Delhi from 14 to 16 December 2016. Statement 2 fails on three counts. The Ministerial Conference is biennial, not annual. The Delhi Declaration says it shall normally meet after every two years. Different countries have hosted. Iran hosted in 2008, Indonesia in 2010, Jordan in 2012 and Korea in 2014. India hosted again in 2016. So India does not host all of them. The 2006 Delhi Declaration thanks the Asian Development Bank as a partner and calls on ASEAN to support the work. APEC is not named in that Declaration, in the Tehran Declaration or in the Bureau minutes of 2025 and 2026. The official UPSC key for CSP 2017, Series A, gives (d), which is Neither 1 nor 2. The paper lists the options in a different order. The answer is the same. Read more: Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (APMCHUD).

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