International Relations Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 6)

The answer is Artillery guns. The 2017 strategic partnership policy named fighter aircraft/helicopters, submarines, and armoured vehicles/tanks as its four segments, not artillery guns.

The answer is the National Security Advisor. The Defence Planning Committee, set up in 2018, is chaired by the NSA to coordinate long-term defence planning.

The answer is India’s External Affairs and Defence Ministers meeting their US counterparts. This inaugural 2+2 dialogue in September 2018 deepened the India-US strategic partnership.

Russia hosted this large multi-nation strategic exercise at the Donguz training ranges in Orenburg. It ran from 9 to 23 September 2019, with troops from China, India, Pakistan and several Central Asian states taking part. China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan were participants in the exercise, not the host nation.

The answer is Yokohama, Japan, where the ITTO has been headquartered since the organisation’s founding.

The answer is building trust with neighbours. I.K. Gujral’s doctrine called for India to offer non-reciprocal accommodation to smaller neighbouring countries.

The correct answer is rights of women. The Declaration is the opening statement of the Beijing Platform for Action. Paragraph 14 says women’s rights are human rights. The Declaration does reaffirm the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but its subject is women. The Platform’s twelve critical areas, from poverty to the girl-child, are all about women and girls.

The correct answer is 2000. The General Assembly held its 23rd special session on Beijing in 2000. The later reviews took place inside the Commission on the Status of Women. Those were its 49th session in 2005, its 54th in 2010 and its 59th in 2015.

The correct answer is 9 July 1993. India signed CEDAW on 30 July 1980 and ratified it on 9 July 1993. The Convention was adopted on 18 December 1979 and entered into force on 3 September 1981. The other three dates are real CEDAW dates, but none is India’s ratification.

The answer is 1, 2 and 3. China, Vietnam, and Malaysia are core claimants in the South China Sea dispute; Indonesia is not officially a claimant party.

India proposed this day to the UN General Assembly, and 175 member states co-sponsored it. The UN adopted the resolution on 11 December 2014, setting 21 June as International Day of Yoga. The date and idea were suggested by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his 2014 UN General Assembly address.

The answer is Joko Widodo. He won re-election in the 2019 Indonesian presidential vote, defeating Prabowo Subianto.

The answer is the ‘largest’ claim. The OIC is actually the second largest intergovernmental organization in the world, after the United Nations.

The answer is Dhaka. SAARC was founded there in December 1985 by seven South Asian nations.

The answer is Pune. The College of Military Engineering is located at Dapodi, Pune, and trains combat engineers for the Indian Army.

In 2022, the United Nations formally recognised Turkey’s request to be known internationally as ‘Turkiye’.

IPEF’s four pillars are Trade, Supply Chains, Clean Economy, and Fair Economy (tax and anti-corruption). Defence cooperation and intelligence sharing is not one of them.

The correct answer is Act East Policy. Launched in 2014, it builds on India’s older Look East Policy, with a sharper focus on strategic and economic engagement with ASEAN.

The correct answer is Timor-Leste. It became the 11th member of ASEAN on 26 October 2025 at the 47th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur. That was ASEAN’s first expansion since 1999, when Cambodia joined. Prime Minister Modi congratulated Timor-Leste at the 22nd ASEAN-India Summit on the same day.

The correct answer is Jakarta. The ASEAN Secretariat has been based in Jakarta, Indonesia, since the organisation’s early years.

The correct answer is Vietnam. ASEAN’s five founding members were Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Vietnam joined much later, in 1995.

The ASEAN site names the five founders as Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. It says Brunei Darussalam joined ASEAN on 7 January 1984. So Brunei is the country that was not a founder. The Bangkok Declaration was signed by the Foreign Ministers of Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand and the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia.

The ASEAN site says the Charter entered into force on 15 December 2008, at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta. The Tribune also reports that it entered into force in 2008. The date 8 August 1967 is when ASEAN was founded. The date 26 October 2025 is when Timor-Leste joined. The first ASEAN Summit was held in Bali on 23-24 February 1976.

The Ministry of External Affairs says India became a Sectoral Partner of ASEAN in 1992 and a Dialogue Partner in 1996. It became a Summit Level Partner in 2002. The Tribune also places India’s formal engagement with ASEAN in 1992. The year 2012 is when the Commemorative Summit in New Delhi endorsed a Strategic Partnership.

The ASEAN Secretariat says Timor-Leste officially applied for membership in 2011. In 2022 ASEAN Leaders agreed in principle to admit it and gave it Observer Status. The Roadmap for its full membership was adopted in 2023. The ASEAN site lists 26 October 2025 as the date Timor-Leste joined. Cambodia, not Timor-Leste, joined in 1999.