International Relations Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 17)

The correct answer is 1 only. Statement 1 holds. The GCF says it supports mitigation and adaptation in developing countries. Statement 2 does not hold. The Cancun decision of COP16 established the Fund, and UNFCCC Parties took that decision. The sources opened name no founding role for UNEP, the OECD, the Asian Development Bank or the World Bank. So statement 2 is out, and option (a) stands by elimination. The stem matches a UPSC CSP 2015, GS Paper I question, except that the stored stem leaves out the paper’s line “Select the correct answer using the code given below.” The official key was not opened for this lesson.

The correct answer is that it feeds the Jordan River, which flows into the Sea of Galilee. EBSCO says the Jordan River flows through the Golan into the Sea of Galilee. That lake supplies about one-third of Israel’s drinking water. Oil reserves is wrong because the sources name no oil there. The desalination plant is wrong because no source links one to the Golan. The Euphrates is wrong because the Golan’s river is the Jordan. Memory hook: Golan, Jordan, Galilee.

The correct answer is Resolution 497. The Council adopted it unanimously. It said Israel’s decision to impose its laws on the occupied Syrian Golan was null and void and without international legal effect. It also demanded that Israel rescind the decision. Resolution 242 is wrong because it dates from November 1967 and stresses withdrawal from occupied territories. Resolution 350 is wrong because it set up UNDOF in 1974. Resolution 2766 is wrong because it renewed UNDOF in December 2024. Memory hook: 497 is the 1981 void resolution.

The correct answer is 31 December 2026. Resolution 2824 renewed the mandate for six months, until that date. 30 June 2026 is wrong because that was the end date set by the earlier Resolution 2811. 31 December 2025 is wrong because Resolution 2811 was adopted on 29 December 2025 and ran to 30 June 2026. 30 June 2027 is wrong because the renewal covers six months, not a year. Memory hook: each step is six months, June to December and back.

The correct answer is The United States and Colombia. The US recognised Israeli sovereignty on 25 March 2019. Colombia announced its recognition on 10 August 2026. Only the US is wrong because Colombia has since joined it. The US, UK and France is wrong because Al Jazeera names Colombia as the only other country. No country is wrong because two states have recognised it. Memory hook: two names, 2019 and 2026. The list is as at 11 August 2026.

The correct answer is The 1973 Yom Kippur War and 1974 Disengagement Agreement. Resolution 350 set up UNDOF on 31 May 1974, after the Israeli and Syrian forces agreed to disengage. The 1967 war is wrong because UNDOF came seven years later. The 1981 Golan Heights Law is wrong because it came after UNDOF was already in place. The 2011 civil war is wrong for the same reason, as it is far later. Memory hook: UNDOF is a 1974 force.

The correct answer is The 1967 Six-Day War. Israel captured most of the Golan Heights from Syria in that war. The 1948 war is wrong because it is only an earlier war in which Syrian guns fired from the plateau. The 1973 war is wrong because Syria tried to regain the Golan then and was thwarted. The 1982 Lebanon War is wrong because the capture came in 1967. Memory hook: 1967 captured, 1973 retake attempt, 1974 separation.

The correct answer is Middle East. The Golan Heights is a plateau at the southwest edge of Syria, bordering Israel. Central Asia is wrong because the Golan is not in that region. South-East Asia is wrong for the same reason. Central Africa is wrong too, since the dispute is between Israel and Syria. Memory hook: Golan means Israel, Syria and the Middle East.

The correct date is 8 August 2014. The WHO Director-General declared the West Africa Ebola outbreak a PHEIC after the committee’s meeting.

March 2014 concerns recognition and reporting of the outbreak, not the international emergency declaration. December 2013 concerns the earliest illness.

Ending the PHEIC on 29 March 2016 was a separate decision. The West Africa outbreak was declared over in June 2016.

Keep the outbreak’s beginning, recognition, declaration and ending distinct. Review the West Africa timeline and the exam date distinctions.

Seasonal influenza is the correct choice among these options. The 2009 H1N1 pandemic, Zika and COVID-19 each received PHEIC declarations.

Ordinary seasonal flu is different from the extraordinary H1N1 pandemic event. The designation concerns the event’s character, international risk and need for coordination.

Death totals alone do not decide whether an event is a PHEIC. Recurrence alone is not a blanket rule excluding all emergencies involving a familiar disease.

The declaration comparison is checked against WHO’s history and subsequent statements as of 9 October 2026. Read the dated emergency history.

Review the PHEIC test to understand why a disease name alone cannot decide the answer.

The IHR primarily support preventing and controlling international disease spread while avoiding unnecessary travel and trade disruption. Health measures should match the public health risk.

Countries maintain detection, assessment, reporting and response capacities. WHO supports early warning and coordinated international response.

The regulations do not principally set vaccine prices, directly fund health ministries or create a global insurance system. Those alternatives describe different policy functions.

A border health measure should protect health without unnecessary interference. The framework does not require unrestricted travel regardless of risk.

Read the IHR’s purpose and how detection becomes coordinated action.

Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia were the centre of the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak. The epidemic spread from Guinea to its two neighbours.

The earliest illness began in December 2013. Recognition and international reporting followed in March 2014.

Nigeria, Mali and Senegal were affected too, but they were not the three-country centre. The Congo–Uganda option belongs to a different geographic setting.

The epidemic involved more than 28,600 infections and 11,325 deaths. Those historical totals do not describe the current Ebola outbreak.

Review the outbreak centre and additional affected countries, then the declaration and termination timeline.

The best listed answer is the WHO Director-General, advised by an Emergency Committee. The Director-General makes the determination; experts advise rather than declare it themselves.

The Security Council, General Assembly and a vote of WHO members are not the IHR declaration mechanism.

The committee wording summarizes the usual process. On 17 May 2026, the Bundibugyo event was declared after consultation with affected countries.

The Emergency Committee first met on 19 May. Temporary recommendations followed on 22 May.

Review the decision process and its 2026 example. Compare United Nations organs and related bodies to separate the institutions.

The correct answer is 3 only. India is not a member of APEC — it applied but was not admitted. India is also not a member of ASEAN — it holds dialogue-partner and strategic-partner status instead. India is a founding member of the East Asia Summit, alongside the 10 ASEAN states plus Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Russia, and the US.

Amnesty International is a global human rights movement. Human rights research, public campaigning and member participation define that mission. It is not a UN refugee agency or an intergovernmental medical-emergency organization. General poverty relief does not capture its mission. The official 2015 Set A question 53 answer is (b), matching the retained answer text.

Review Amnesty’s mission and the 2015 question for the institutional distinction.

The correct answer is Jorge Moreira da Silva. He joined UNOPS as Executive Director in April 2023. Grete Faremo had led UNOPS from 2014 to 2022, and UNOPS announced her resignation on 8 May 2022. Jens Wandel served as acting Executive Director in between. Achim Steiner led UNDP from 2017 to 2025. Alexander De Croo has been UNDP Administrator since 2 December 2025.

The correct answer is the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS). In December 2021 UNOPS placed the S3i Chief Executive on administrative leave pending an OIOS investigation. By its statement dated 14 July 2022, UNOPS said OIOS had concluded its investigation. In February 2023 the Executive Board decided to phase out S3i. UNOPS says this followed a series of management failures. The decision is numbered 2023/4.

The correct answer is UNICEF. The UN System Chart of March 2025 lists UNICEF as a fund or programme. It lists WHO, ILO and FAO as specialized agencies. It lists UNHCR and UNOPS under other entities, so they are not funds or programmes.

The correct answer is Denmark. UNOPS lists its headquarters at Marmorvej 51, 2100 Copenhagen, and UN City Copenhagen has the same address. Campus 1 was inaugurated on 4 July 2013 with 8 UN agencies. The UN City site lists 10 agencies, as at 9 October 2026. UNHCR is based in Geneva, Switzerland. UNEP and UN-Habitat are based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The correct answer is 1995. UNOPS began operating as a separate entity on 1 January 1995. The General Assembly took decision 48/501 earlier, on 19 September 1994. So the decision is dated 1994 and the new status began in 1995. UNOPS says its origins trace back to 1973, when it was a unit inside UNDP. The year 2013 is when UN City in Copenhagen opened.

1975 was designated International Women’s Year, one of the earliest such UN designations, decades before the practice became as frequent as it is today.

The same UN mechanism that creates International Years also designates International Days, Weeks, and Decades — a broader family of observances at different timescales, all created through General Assembly resolutions.

2025 was designated the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology to mark roughly 100 years since the early development of quantum mechanics in the 1920s.

More than one International Year can run in the same calendar year — 2025, for example, is simultaneously the International Year of Peace and Trust, of Cooperatives, and of Quantum Science and Technology.

A UN International Year is created through a General Assembly resolution, usually after a Member State proposes the theme.