International Relations Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 1)

The G20 was actually formed in 1999, not 2001, following the G7’s response to the 1997-99 financial crises. The other three statements are all correct.

Merz fell 6 votes short in the first round, an unprecedented result in German history, then won a second vote. His coalition includes the CDU and its Bavarian sister party CSU, along with the SPD.

The correct answer is The Indian Chemical Council. PIB reports that the 2024 OPCW-The Hague Award was conferred on the Indian Chemical Council on 25 November 2024. A second PIB release calls it a co-recipient. PIB says this was the first time the Award recognised a chemical industry body. The National Authority Chemical Weapons Convention is India’s national authority. PIB does not name it as a winner. The official CAPF (ACs) 2025 key, Series A, gives (a).

Israel shares land borders with all four: Egypt in the south, Jordan in the east, Syria in the northeast, and Lebanon in the north.

The key stored on this site is (c) Only three. The official key was not opened. A UNOPS release of 17 June 2021 says S3i focused on affordable housing, renewable energy and health. That list matches items 1, 3 and 4 in the question, which is three. The 2021 report to the Board and the third-party review name water and sanitation, not health, as the third area. Both lists have three sectors. Mass rapid transport appears in neither list.

All four pairs are correctly matched per UN General Assembly designations: International Year of the Woman Farmer (2026), International Year of Sustainable and Resilient Tourism (2027), International Year of Peace and Trust (2025), and International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence (2029).

Pairs 1 and 2 are correct. Argentina faced one of its worst economic crises, with inflation exceeding 250% in 2024. Sudan has been gripped by civil war since April 2023, between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Pair 3 is wrong: Turkey has not left NATO. It remains a full member since 1952, with the alliance’s second-largest army.

S. Jaishankar, India’s External Affairs Minister since 2019 and a former Foreign Secretary, wrote both books: ‘The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World’ (2020) and ‘Why Bharat Matters’ (2024), both focused on India’s foreign policy and geopolitical strategy.

Statement 1 is correct: France and India co-chaired the Paris AI Action Summit, which built on the 2023 Bletchley Park Summit (UK) and the 2024 Seoul Summit. Statement 2 is wrong: the US and UK were among the few notable holdouts who refused to sign the declaration on inclusive and sustainable AI, even though 61 other countries, including India, signed it.

Only Statement 1 is correct. BIMSTEC has had seven members since 2004. It was founded through the Bangkok Declaration in 1997, not a ‘Dhaka Declaration’ in 1999 (Statement 2 wrong). Founding members were Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, with Myanmar joining later the same year — not Nepal, which joined in 2004 (Statement 3 wrong). Tourism falls under Nepal’s People-to-People Contact sector, not India’s, whose lead sector is Security (Statement 4 wrong).

Exercise Mitra Shakti-2023 (the 9th edition) was a joint military exercise between India and Sri Lanka, not Bangladesh — statement 1 is wrong. It commenced in Aundh (Pune) on 16 November 2023, so statement 2 is correct. Synergising joint responses during counter-terrorist operations was a core objective, so statement 3 is correct. This edition was the first bi-service one, with personnel from the Indian Air Force and Sri Lankan Air Force participating alongside the two armies, so statement 4 is correct. So the correct answer is 2, 3 and 4.

The officials approved an implementation plan with timelines for each agreed item. No treaty or trade deal was announced.

Amitabh Prasad, a Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, co-chaired with Rwanda’s Brigadier General Louis Kanobayire. The Rwandan team later met Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh.

The MoU was signed in July 2018 during PM Modi’s visit to Rwanda. It was the first visit there by an Indian Prime Minister.

The agreed areas were military training, joint military exercises, military medical cooperation and defence industry collaboration.

The first JDCC was held in Kigali in February 2024. July 2018 is when the defence MoU was signed, during PM Modi’s visit to Rwanda.

The second JDCC met in New Delhi on 6-7 July 2026. The first one was held in Kigali, Rwanda, in February 2024.

The Hindu reports that the ninth KAZIND ran at Oskemen from 28 September to 11 October.

AIR notes the Nice meeting was the first summit since ties became a Special Global Strategic Partnership in February.

The MEA called it the first visit by an Indian PM since Slovakia’s independence in 1993.

The Executive Director represents India on the Board. The Board oversees lending, projects and policy.

Business Today says the FATF sets standards against money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing.

ANI reports Modi interacted with leaders from Italy, the European Union and Kenya, including William Ruto.

AIR reports representatives of the World Bank and the African Development Bank joined the session.

MIT took the top spot. It has held that rank for 15 years in a row.